Tizoc
Aztec/Mexica · mortal · triple alliance · Recorded classification
Tizoc is the tlatoani the Mexica seem to have got rid of. His campaigns produced almost nothing — his coronation war, which was supposed to supply captives, brought back a famously small number — and he reigned five years and died, with the chroniclers recording a widespread belief that he had been poisoned by nobles who had had enough. The stone he left behind shows him taking fifteen lords captive by the hair, which is a claim rather than a record. It is useful evidence that in this system a king who could not deliver victories was not simply a disappointment; he was a liability.
Domains
- sovereignty
Relations
- sibling: AxayacatlBrother, and his predecessor.Reference treatment of the three brothers who ruled in succession. (secondary)
- sibling: AhuitzotlBrother, and his successor.Reference treatment of the three brothers who ruled in succession. (secondary)
Sources
- Tizoc is the seventh tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, reigning 1481-1486, an unsuccessful war leader who died after five years, possibly poisoned, and who left the carved Stone of Tizoc.: Reference treatments of Tizoc and his reign. (secondary)