Kʼan Joy Chitam I,The ruler's name, when transcribed is KʼAN-na-JOY HITAMma, translated "Precious/Yellow Tied Peccary". also known as Hok, Kan Xul I and Kʼan Hokʼ Chitam I, (May 3, 490 – February 6, 565) was an

ajaw Ajaw or Ahau ('Lord') is a pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Maya political title attested from epigraphy, epigraphic inscriptions. It is also the name of the 20th day of the ''tzolkʼin'', the Maya divinatory calendar, on which a ruler's ''kʼat ...

of the

Maya Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a popul ...

city-state of

Palenque Palenque (; Yucatec Maya: ), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamhaʼ ("Big Water or Big Waters"), was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD. ...

. He took the throne on February 6, 529 at age 34, ending an interregnum that had lasted for a little over four years.These are the dates indicated on the Maya inscriptions in

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, vigesimal (base 20) and octodecimal (base 18) calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the May ...

, Born: 9.2.15.3.8 12 Lamat 6 Wo, Acceded: 9.4.14.10.4 5 Kʼan 12 Kʼayab and Died: 9.6.11.0.16 7 Kib 4 Kʼayab.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chitam, Kan Joy, I 490 births 565 deaths Monarchs of Palenque 6th-century monarchs in North America 6th century in the Maya civilization