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Tezozomoctli (originally Teçoçomoctli; ruled 1418–1430) was a tlatoani ("ruler" or "king") of the pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Cuauhtitlan in central Mexico. His palace was located at Huexocalco.

Tezozomoctli was born in the Mexica city of Tlatelolco. His father was Tlacateotl, who was the second tlatoani of Tlatelolco. His mother was Xiuhtomiyauhtzin, the daughter of the tlatoani of Coatl Ichan, Acolmiztli. Tezozomoctli was probably named after his great-grandfather, the powerful ruler of Azcapotzalco.

In the Tepanec War in the year 3 Rabbit (1430), Cuauhtitlan was attacked and defeated by the combined forces of the surrounding peoples. After being informed at his refuge at Cincoc Huehuetocan that Cuauhtitlan had been captured, Tezozomoctli travelled to Atzompan where he allegedly committed suicide by poison.

Notes

1. ^ Bierhorst (1992): pp. 80–81.
2. ^ Bierhorst (1992): pp. 90–93.
3. Bierhorst (1992): p. 91; Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, pp. 59, 113. The Annals of Cuauhtitlan (in Bierhorst 1992) actually give Tezozomoctli's father once as Tlacateotl (p. 91) and once as Quauhtlatoa (pp. 80–81), Tlacateotl's successor.
4. Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, p. 113.
5. Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, pp. 111–133.

References

• Bierhorst, John (tr.) (1992). History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico. ed. and tr. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press.

• Nahua nobility
• Tlatoque
• 15th-century monarchs in North America
• 15th-century indigenous people of the Americas
• 1430 deaths
• Heads of state who died by suicide
• Suicides by poison
• Suicides in North America
• Royalty who died by suicide