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Huitzilxotzin

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Huitzilxotzin
Queen of Tenochtitlan
SpouseKing Acamapichtli
IssuePrince Tlatolqaca
FatherTenqacatetl

Huitzilxotzin (modern Nahuatl pronunciation) was a Queen of Tenochtitlan as a wife of Aztec emperor Acamapichtli. She was a daughter of Tenqacatetl and mother of Prince Tlatolqaca. She was a grandmother of Princes Cahualtzin, Tetlepanquetzatzin and Tecatlapohuatzin.

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Sources

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  • 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 by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. Edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 25–177. ISBN 0-8061-2921-2.
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Regnal titles
Preceded by
Position created
Queen of Tenochtitlan
1376–1395
(estimated)
Succeeded by
Wives of Huitzilihuitl