Huitzilihuitl
Aztec/Mexica · mortal · founding of tenochtitlan · Recorded classification
Huitzilihuitl's achievement was a marriage. The Mexica were still paying tribute to Azcapotzalco and still building their city out of a marsh; he married the Tepanec lord's daughter, and the tribute came down, and Mexica traders got better access, and the island started to look like a city. It is unglamorous statecraft and it set up everything his sons did. He is also the father of both Moctezuma I and Tlacaelel, which makes him the origin of the most effective political partnership in Mexica history.
Parentage
- parent: Acamapichtli
Children
Domains
- sovereignty
Relations
- father of: ChimalpopocaHis successor and son.Reference treatment of Chimalpopoca as the son of Huitzilihuitl. (secondary)
- father of: Moctezuma ISon, and the fifth tlatoani.Reference treatment of Moctezuma I as a son of Huitzilihuitl. (secondary)
- father of: TlacaelelSon, and the man who declined the throne and took the power instead.Reference treatment of Tlacaelel as a son of Huitzilihuitl and half-brother of Moctezuma I. (secondary)
Sources
- Huitzilihuitl is the second tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, son of Acamapichtli, who married into the ruling house of Azcapotzalco and improved the Mexica's tributary position; the codices date his reign variously between 1390 and 1417.: Reference treatment of Huitzilihuitl and the codices' reign dates. (secondary)