Tezozomoctli (Cuauhtitlan)

Infobox Nahua officeholder
name = Tezozomoctli
title = Tlatoani of Cuauhtitlan
term = 4 Rabbit – 3 Rabbit
1418 – 1430
predecessor = Xaltemoctzin
successor = Tecocoatzin
birth_place = Tlatelolco
death_date = 1430
death_place = Atzompan
father = Tlacateotl
mother = Xiuhtomiyauhtzin

Tezozomoctli (originally Teçoçomoctli; ruled 1418Bierhorst (1992): pp. 80–81.] –1430Bierhorst (1992): pp. 90–93.] ) was a "tlatoani" ("ruler" or "king") of the pre-Columbian Nahua "altepetl" (city-state) of Cuauhtitlan in central Mexico. His palace was located at Huexocalco.

Tezozomoctli was born at the Mexica city of Tlatelolco. His father was Tlacateotl, who was the second tlatoani of Tlatelolco. [Bierhorst (1992): p. 91; Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, pp. 59, 113. The Annals of Cuauhtitlan (in Bierhorst 1992) actually give Tezozomoctli's father once as Tlacateotl (p. 91) and once as Cuauhtlatoa (pp. 80–81), Tlacateotl's successor.] His mother was Xiuhtomiyauhtzin, the daughter of the tlatoani of Coatl Ichan, Acolmiztli. [Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, p. 113.] Tezozomoctli was probably named after his great-grandfather, the powerful ruler of Azcapotzalco.Fact|date=July 2007

In the Tepanec War in the year 3 Rabbit (1430), Cuauhtitlan was attacked and defeated by the combined forces of the surrounding peoples. After being informed at his refuge at Cincoc Huehuetocan that Cuauhtitlan had been captured, Tezozomoctli travelled to Atzompan where he committed suicide by poison.

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*cite book |author=Bierhorst, John (tr.) |year=1992 |title=History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca |location=Tucson |publisher=University of Arizona Press
*cite book |author=Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón |year=1997 |title=Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico |others=ed. and tr. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder |location=Norman and London |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press