Cacamatzin (tlacochcalcatl)

Cacamatzin
Born	Mexico Tenochtitlan
Died	Michoacán
Allegiance	Mexico Tenochtitlan
Rank	Tlacochcalcatl
Relations	Son of Tlacaelel and Maquiztzin

Cacamatzin was a 15th-century Aztec noble — the eldest son of the cihuacoatl, Tlacaelel^[1] — and warrior who held the title of Tlacochcalcatl. His mother was princess Maquiztzin.^[2]

He had twelve children, only three of whom are known:^[3]

• A female (name unknown), who married Nezahualpilli, the tlatoani of Texcoco. The pair had a son, named Cacamatzin after his grandfather, who succeeded his father as ruler of Texcoco.^[3]
• Tlacaelel II, named after his grandfather, who also became cihuacoatl.^[4]
• Chicuey or Chicome Axochitzin, a warrior whose daughter became the mistress of Juan Rodríguez de Villafuerte, a Spanish conquistador.^[3]

Cacamatzin was killed by the Purépecha after being captured in battle.^[2]

Notes

1. Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 52–53, 140–141.
2. Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 48–49.
3. Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 140–141
4. Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 54–55, 140–141.

References

• Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). "Mexican History or Chronicle". 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. pp. 26–177. ISBN 0-8061-2921-2.