Maxixcatl

Maxixcatl

Maxixcatl

Tlatoani of Ocotelolco

Maxixcatl[1] was the tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Ocotelolco at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

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Ocotelolco was one of the four towns that formed the state of Tlaxcallan. Mase Ecasi gave his daughter, baptized as Dona Luisa, to Juan Velazquez de Leon, both of whom were killed on La Noche Triste.[2]: 307  Maxixcatzin was instrumental in forming the alliance between Tlaxcallan and the Spanish force of Hernán Cortés against the Aztecs.[2]: 140–188  Maxixcatl died in the smallpox epidemic which decimated the indigenous population of central Mexico in 1520.[2]: 311 

He was succeeded by his 13-year-old son Lorenzo Maxixcatl.

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References

  1. [1]
    The Nahuatl name is often used in the honorific form as Maxixcatzin.
  2. [2]
    Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, ISBN 0140441239

Further reading

Preceded by
Cuitlixcatl
 Tlatoani of Ocotelolco
ca. 1500 - 1520		 Succeeded by
Lorenzo Maxixcatl
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