Quinatzin (full name: Quinatzin Tlaltecatzin) (
kinat͡sin t͡ɬaltekat͜sin, ) was a
King of ancient Texcoco, an
Acolhua city-state in
Mexico
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. He was the first known ruler of that city and is also known as Quinatzin II.
It was Quinatzin who transferred the seat of
Chichimec power to
Texcoco, relegating the city of
Tenayuca
Tenayuca ( ) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico. In the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, Tenayuca was a settlement on the former shoreline of the western arm of Lake Texcoco. It was locate ...
to a site of secondary importance.
The father of Quinatzin was Tlotzin Pochotl, and a noblewoman called Icpacxochitl.
Quinatzin's wife was a
Princess
Princess is a title used by a female member of a regnant monarch's family or by a female ruler of a principality. The male equivalent is a prince (from Latin '' princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for ...
from
Huejotla, Queen Cuauhcihuatzin, mother of his successor
Techotlalatzin
Techotlalatzin (or Techotlala, removing the Classical Nahuatl honorific ''-tzin'') was the ruler (''tlatoani'') of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco (altepetl), Texcoco from 1357 or 1377 until his death in 1409. Techotlalatzin wa ...
. Her grandson was
Ixtlilxochitl I
Ixtlilxochitl Ome Tochtli (c. 1380–1418) was the ruler (''tlatoani'') of the Acolhua city-state of Texcoco from 1409 to 1418 and the father of the famous "poet-king" Nezahualcoyotl.
Early years as ''tlatoani''
Claiming descent from the legen ...
.
Quinatzin’s mother-in-law was called Tomiyauh.
['' Tlatelolco a través de los tiempos: serie de estudios'', edition 1-6]
See also
*
Mapa Quinatzin, a 16th-century Nahua pictorial document
Notes
Aztec nobility
14th-century Aztec people
Tlatoque of Texcoco
14th-century monarchs in North America
14th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
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