Acamapichtli
Aztec/Mexica · mortal · founding of tenochtitlan · Recorded classification
Acamapichtli was imported. The Mexica at this point were a client people on a swampy island paying tribute to Azcapotzalco, and what they wanted from a king was legitimacy — so they applied to Colhuacan, which had Toltec blood, and were given a man with it. Every later tlatoani is his descendant, and the dynasty's whole claim rests on that transaction. The codices cannot agree on when he reigned; the spread is forty years, which is a useful reminder about the precision of Mesoamerican regnal chronology before the fifteenth century.
Children
Domains
- sovereignty
Relations
- father of: HuitzilihuitlHis successor and son.Reference treatment of the Mexica dynasty: Huitzilihuitl succeeded his father Acamapichtli. (secondary)
- father of: ItzcoatlAlso his son — by a woman of low birth, which the later chroniclers were careful to record and which did not stop him becoming the most consequential ruler of the line.Reference treatment of Itzcoatl as a son of Acamapichtli. (secondary)
Sources
- Acamapichtli is the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, installed from Colhuacan for his Toltec descent, and the ancestor of the whole Mexica royal line; the codices give his reign variously as 1367-1387, 1376-1395 and 1350-1403.: Reference treatment of Acamapichtli and the codices' reign dates. (secondary)