Atotoztli I

For her great-great-granddaughter, see Atotoztli II.

Atotoztli I (Classical Nahuatl: Atotoztli [atoˈtostɬi]) was a Princess of Culhuacan.

Biography

Atotoztli was a daughter of King Coxcoxtli and sister of King Huehue Acamapichtli. She married Opochtli Iztahuatzin and bore him a son called Acamapichtli after her brother. She lived with her son in Texcoco. Her son became the first Aztec emperor.

Family tree

Atotoztli was an ancestor of many Aztec emperors - kings of Tenochtitlan.

Source

• Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). "Mexican History or Chronicle". Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. Edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 25–177. ISBN 0-8061-2921-2.