Tzihuacxochitzin I

For another queen with the same name, see Tzihuacxochitzin II.

Tzihuacxochitzin I was a Queen consort of Azcapotzalco as a wife of the king Tezozomoc, who was very famous.

She was a daughter of the noble dignitary called Huitzilaztatzin. She married Tezozomoc, and it is mentioned by Chimalpahin that they had ten children:

• Epcoatzin
• Icel Azcatl
• Itzpapalocihuatl
• Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl
• Tlacochcuecihuatl
• Chichilocuili
• Maxtla
• Xaltemoctzin
• Xiuhcanahualtzin
• Quaquapitzahuac

This image shows the funeral of Tzihuacxochitzin's husband.

Xaltemoctzin had a daughter called Tzihuacxochitzin, named after his mother.

Tzihuacxochitzin was a grandmother of Tecollotzin, Tlacateotl, Matlalatzin and Huacaltzintli. It is possible that she was a mother of the queen Ayauhcihuatl, who was a mother of Aztec emperor Chimalpopoca.

References

• Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, 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: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. The Civilization of the American Indian Series. edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-2921-2.