Xilomantzin

Infobox Nahua officeholder
name =Xilomantzin
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caption =Xilomantzin, with his name glyph (top) and the glyph of Culhuacan (bottom), in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis.
title =Tlatoani of Culhuacan
term =13 Flint (1440) – 7 House (1473)
predecessor =Acoltzin
successor =Tlatolcaltzin
birth_date =
birth_place =
death_date =7 House (1473)
death_place =Tlatelolco
father =Acoltzin
mother =Tlacochcuetzin
wife =Izquixotzin
children =Acolmiztli

Xilomantzin was the "tlatoani" ("king") of the pre-Columbian "altepetl" (ethnic state) of Culhuacan in the Valley of Mexico from 1440 to 1473.

Xilomantzin was the son of Acoltzin, the previous ruler of Culhuacan, and Tlacochcuecihuatl or Tlacochcuetzin, a daughter of Tezozomoctli, ruler of Azcapotzalco. [Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, p. 111.] He succeeded his father in the year 13 Flint (1440). [Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 233.] He married Izquixotzin, the daughter of Tlacateotl, ruler of Tlatelolco, and had a son named Acolmiztli. [Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, p. 113.]

In the year 7 House (1473), Xilomantzin sided with Moquihuixtli, then ruler of Tlatelolco, in a conflict against Tenochtitlan (led by Axayacatl), which resulted in both Moquihuixtli and Xilomantzin being killed. [Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1, p. 139; vol. 2, pp. 91–93, 107; Quiñones Keber (1995): pp. 221–222.]

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*cite book |author=Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón |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 |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press
*cite book |author=Quiñones Keber, Eloise |year=1995 |title=Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript |location=Austin |publisher=University of Texas Press