Tetlepanquetzal (died 1525) was the fourth

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(ruler) of Tlacopan, and reigned after 1503 as a tributary of the Mexican emperor

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, whom he assisted in the first defence of Mexico. Afterward he was one of the principal auxiliaries of

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. When the city was finally taken, 13 August 1521, he was made prisoner and

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d, together with

, by the

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to coerce them into revealing the hiding place of the imperial

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. Tetlepanquetzal was present when Hernán Cortés met

for the first time.

Death

When

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 ...

marched in October, 1524 to

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to subdue the revolt of

Cristóbal de Olid Cristóbal de Olid (; 1487–1524) was a Spanish adventurer, conquistador and rebel who played a part in the conquest of the Aztec Empire and present-day Honduras. Born in Baeza, Olid grew up in the household of the governor of Cuba, Diego V ...

, he carried Tetlepanquetzal with him, in addition to the Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc, and another , Coanacotzin (of Texcoco), for fear of an insurgency while he was away. During the expedition, under the pretext that he had discovered a conspiracy against him, Cortés had all three strangled or hanged, with others, during

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, 1525.

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