MaxixcatlThe Nahuatl name is often used in the honorific form as Maxixcatzin. was the tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Ocotelolco, one of the four towns that formed the state of Tlaxcallan. He was one of the main signers of the alliance with

Hernán Cortés Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions o ...

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Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire. Taking place between 1519 and 1521, this event saw the Spanish conquistad ...

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Maxixcatzin was instrumental in forming the alliance between Tlaxcallan and the Spanish force of

against the

Aztec The Aztecs ( ) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the Post-Classic stage, post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central ...

s.Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, He gave his daughter Zicuetzin, baptized as Luisa, to Juan Velazquez de Leon, both of whom were killed on La Noche Triste. Maxixcatl died in the smallpox epidemic which decimated the indigenous population of central Mexico in 1520. He was succeeded by his 13-year-old son Lorenzo Maxixcatl.

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