Tlacuilolxochtzin

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Tlacuilolxochtzin
Princess of Ecatepec
Born Mexico
Spouse(s) Tezozomoctli Acolnahuacatl
Issue Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin
Don Francisco Matlaccoatzin
Don Carlos Oquiztzin
Father Matlaccoatzin

Tlacuilolxochtzin ( Nahuatl : tɬakʷilolʃotʃtsin) was an Aztec noblewoman of very noble heritage, Lady of Ecatepec and sister of queen Tlapalizquixochtzin.

Family

She was a Princess - the daughter of Tlatoani Matlaccoatzin and thus granddaughter of the Tlatoani Chimalpilli I. [1]

Tlacuilolxochtzin was a relative to several Aztec Emperors and she married Prince Tezozomoctli Acolnahuacatl of Tenochtitlan.

Their sons were Tlatoani Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin (the first governor of Tenochtitlan), and one lord who went to Spain. [2]

Notes

  1. Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin (September 1997). Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan and other Nahua Altepetl in central Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 111. ISBN   978-0-8061-2950-1 . Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  2. Lockhart, James (1992) [1992]. The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN   0-8047-2317-6. OCLC   24283718.

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