Jasaw Chan K'awiil I

Tikal spent most of the seventh century losing to Calakmul, and Jasaw is the king who reversed it. The great temples that everyone photographs at Tikal are his and his son's, built out of that victory; the reversal is the reason there is a Late Classic Tikal to look at. In a registry that until now carried no Maya ruler of any city, he is arguably the first one you would want.

Children

• Yik'in Chan K'awiil

Domains

• kingship
• warfare

Relations

• father of: Yik'in Chan K'awiilHis successor.Reference treatment of Yik'in Chan K'awiil as consolidating the political gains won by his father, Jasaw Chan K'awiil I. (secondary)

Sources

• Jasaw Chan K'awiil I is the twenty-sixth ruler of Tikal, enthroned 3 May 682 and dead in 734, whose defeat of Calakmul in 695 marks Tikal's recovery.: Reference treatments of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I and the 695 victory. (secondary)