Juan de Guzmán

Infobox Monarch
name =Juan de Guzmán
title =Tlatoani of Coyoacan
reign =1526 – 1569
full name =Juan de Guzmán Itztolinqui
predecessor =Hernando Cetochtzin
successor =
spouse 1 =A niece of Carlos Ometochtzin
issue =Juan Lorenzo Hernando
father =Quauhpopocatzin
mother =The daughter of Huitzilatzin
date of death =1569

Don Juan de Guzmán Itztolinqui (reigned 1526–1569Gibson (1960): p. 186] ) was a post-Conquest "tlatoani" (ruler) of the "altepetl" (ethnic state) of Coyoacan in the Valley of Mexico.

Juan de Guzmán's father was Quauhpopocatzin, a previous ruler of Coyoacan, and his mother was a daughter of Huitzilatzin, a ruler of Huitzilopochco. [Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 148–149.] He was thus a great-great-grandson of Huitzilihuitl, the second Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan. He was installed as "tlatoani" by Hernán Cortés in 1526, after the death of his elder brother Hernando Cetochtzin in 1525 during Cortés's expedition to Guatemala.

Don Juan married a niece of Carlos Ometochtzin, a Texocan lord who was burnt at the stake in 1539 for continuing to practise the pre-Hispanic religion.

Upon his death, he was succeeded by his son Juan de Guzmán the younger. [Gibson (1960): p. 187.]

Notes

References

*cite book |author=Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón |chapter=Mexican History or Chronicle |authorlink=Chimalpahin |year=1997 |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 and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin |others=edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder |series=The Civilization of the American Indian Series |pages=pp. 26–177 |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=0-8061-2921-2
*cite journal |author=Gibson, Charles |year=1960 |title=The Aztec Aristocracy in Colonial Mexico |journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=pp. 169–196
*cite book |author=Horn, Rebecca |year=1997 |title=Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1560 |location=Stanford |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0804727732