Tezozomoctli (Cuauhtitlan)

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Tezozomoctli
Tlatoani of Cuauhtitlan
4 Rabbit – 3 Rabbit 1418 – 1430
Preceded by	Xaltemoctzin
Succeeded by	Tecocoatzin

Died	1430 Atzompan
Father	Tlacateotl
Mother	Xiuhtomiyauhtzin

Tezozomoctli (originally Teçoçomoctli; ruled 1418^[1]–1430^[2]) was a tlatoani ("ruler" or "king") of the pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Cuauhtitlan in central Mexico. His palace was located at Huexocalco.^[1]

Tezozomoctli was born at the Mexica city of Tlatelolco. His father was Tlacateotl, who was the second tlatoani of Tlatelolco.^[3] His mother was Xiuhtomiyauhtzin, the daughter of the tlatoani of Coatl Ichan, Acolmiztli.^[4] Tezozomoctli was probably named after his great-grandfather, the powerful ruler of Azcapotzalco.^{[citation needed]}

**Tezozomoctli's ancestors in three generations**^[5]
Tezozomoctli	Father: Tlacateotl	Paternal Grandfather: Quaquapitzahuac	Paternal Great-grandfather: Huehue Tezozomoctli
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Tzihuacxochitzin
		Paternal Grandmother: Chalchiuhxochitzin	Paternal Great-grandfather: Toteoci
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Acxocuetzin
	Mother: Xiuhtomiyauhtzin	Maternal Grandfather: Acolmiztli	Maternal Great-grandfather: Tzompantzin
			Maternal Great-grandmother
		Maternal Grandmother	Maternal Great-grandfather
			Maternal Great-grandmother

In the Tepanec War in the year 3 Rabbit (1430), Cuauhtitlan was attacked and defeated by the combined forces of the surrounding peoples. After being informed at his refuge at Cincoc Huehuetocan that Cuauhtitlan had been captured, Tezozomoctli travelled to Atzompan where he committed suicide by poison.^[2]

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b Bierhorst (1992): pp. 80–81.
^ ^a ^b Bierhorst (1992): pp. 90–93.
^ Bierhorst (1992): p. 91; Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, pp. 59, 113. The Annals of Cuauhtitlan (in Bierhorst 1992) actually give Tezozomoctli's father once as Tlacateotl (p. 91) and once as Cuauhtlatoa (pp. 80–81), Tlacateotl's successor.
^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, p. 113.
^ Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, pp. 111–133.

[edit] References

Bierhorst, John (tr.) (1992). History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, ed. and tr. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press.