Huehue Quetzalmacatzin was a ''
tlatoani'' (ruler) of
Amaquemecan
Amecameca is a municipality located in the eastern panhandle of Mexico State between Mexico City and the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl volcanos of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It is located on federal highway 115 which leads to Cuautla, w ...
in 15th-century
Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area in southern North America and most of Central America. It extends from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica. W ...
.
Family
He was the son of Ipantlaqualloctzin.
His wife was Tlacocihuatzin Ilama. Their daughter was
Maquiztzin
Maquiztzin was the daughter of the Aztec Tlatoque (ruler) Huehue Quetzalmacatzin and Tlacocihuatzin Ilama, in 15th-century Mesoamerica.
She married Tenochcan Tlacaelel and moved to Tenochtitlan with him. She had five children. Her eldest son wa ...
, wife of
Tlacaelel and mother of
Cacamatzin
Cacamatzin (or Cacama) (1483–1520) was the tlatoani (ruler) of Texcoco,Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, the second most important city of the Aztec Empire.
Cacamatzin was a son of the previous king Nezahualpil ...
.
His family is mentioned by annalist
Chimalpahin Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579, Amecameca, Chalco—1660, Mexico City), usually referred to simply as Chimalpahin or Chimalpain, was a Nahua annalist from Chalco. His Nahuatl names () mean "Runs Swi ...
.
References
*{{cite book , author=Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón , authorlink=Chimalpahin , year=1997 , chapter=Mexican History or Chronicle , title=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 , others=Edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder , location=Norman , publisher=University of Oklahoma Press , pages=25–177 , isbn=0-8061-2921-2
Tlatoque
15th-century monarchs in North America
15th-century indigenous people of the Americas