Moctezuma I
Aztec/Mexica · mortal · triple alliance · Recorded classification
The first Moctezuma is the one who built the thing. His half-brother Tlacaelel held the office of Cihuacoatl beside him and the two of them together made the Triple Alliance into an empire — armies to the Gulf coast and down into Oaxaca, a tribute system, a reformed state cult, and a stone aqueduct bringing drinking water from Chapultepec across the lake, because a city on a salt lake has a water problem. His epithet, Ilhuicamina, means he shoots arrows at the sky, and his name-glyph shows exactly that.
Parentage
- parent: Huitzilihuitl
Domains
- sovereignty
Relations
- sibling: ChimalpopocaBrother.Reference treatment of the sons of Huitzilihuitl. (secondary)
- half sibling: TlacaelelHis half-brother and his Cihuacoatl — the partnership that ran the empire for thirty years.Reference treatment of Tlacaelel as the half-brother of Moctezuma I. (secondary)
Sources
- Moctezuma I is the fifth tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, reigning 1440-1469, who expanded the empire to the Gulf and into Oaxaca and built the Chapultepec aqueduct.: Reference treatments of Moctezuma I, his conquests and his reign. (secondary)