CULHUACAN (Altepetl)


TITLE: Tlatoani RELIGION: Nahua
STATE: Mexico POPULATION: Toltec
   
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: According to tradition, Culhuacan was founded by the Toltecs under Mixcoatl and was the first Toltec city. The Nahuatl speakers agreed that Culhuacan was the first city to give its rulers the title of "speaker" (tlatoani). Culhuacan survived the fall of Tollan and maintained its prestige until the mid-14th century. Rulers were...
  • Tlatoani Huetzin, Tlatoani of Culhuacan 1130/1150, originally from Coatlichan, married Princess Atotoztli, daughter of Tlatoani Achitometl (qv)
  • Tlatoani Achitometl I, Tlatoani of Culhuacan 1151/1171, originally tlatocapilli, married and had issue.
    • Princess Atotoztli, married Tlatoani Huetzin (see above)
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  • Tlatoani Acxitl, Tlatoani of Culhuacan, married and had issue.
    • Princess Tecpatl, married Tlatoani Opochtzin, descended from the Toltec kings of Tullan; and had issue (see Tenochtitlan).
    • Princess Pochotl, married Tlatoani Xochipantzin, Tlatoani of Culhuacan (qv).
  • Tlatoani Xochipantzin, Tlatoani of Culhuacan
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  • Tlatoani Coxcoxtli, Tlatoani of Colhuacan 1281/1307, he helped the Tepanecs of Azcapotzalco, the Xochimilca and other cities to expel the Mexica from Chapultepec, he then gave them permission to settle in the barren land of Tizapan, southwest of Chapultepec, and they became vassals of Culhuacan, married and had issue. He died 1307.
    • Tlatoani Huehue Tezozomoctli I, tlatocapilli, he later succeeded as Tlatoani of Azcopatzalco.
    • Tlatoani Huehue Acamapichtli (qv)
    • Princess Atotoztli [Queen Atotoztli I of Tenochtitlan], married Tlatoani Opochtli Iztahuatzin, 6th Tlatoani at Tenochtitlan, and had issue.
  • Tlatoani Huehue Acamapichtli, Tlatoani of Colhuacan fl.1324, married (amongst others), Princess Illancueitl (she married 2ndly, Tlatoani Acamapichtli of Tenochtitlan), died sp, and had issue.
    • Tlatoani Teuhctlamacazqui Nauhyotl II, Tlatoani of Culhuacan (qv)
  • Tlatoani Teuhctlamacazqui Nauhyotl II, Tlatoani of Culhuacan
  • Tlatoani Achitometl II, Tlatoani of Culhuacan 1336/1347
  • Tlatoani Xihuiltemoc, Tlatoani of Culhuacan, married and had issue.
  • Tlatoani Tzompantzin, Tlatoani of Colhuacan, married and had issue.
    • Tlatoani Acolmiztli (qv)
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  • Tlatoani Tezozomoc, Tlatoani of Culhuacan, married and had issue. He died after 1519.
    • Prince Coxcoxtzin, married Princess (name unknown), daughter of Tlatoani Moctezuma II, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.
OTHER MEMBERS: COATLICHAN?
  • Unknown
    • Tlatoani Huehue Acolmiztli, Tlatoani of Aculhuacan Coatlichan, married and had issue.
      • Tlatoani Quauhtlatoa, 3rd Tlatoani of Tlatelolco, died 1431.
      • Princess Xiuhtomiyauhtzin, married Tlatoani Tlacateotl, 2nd Tlatoani of Tlatelolco,and had issue.
    • Princess Illancuetil, married (as his first wife), Tlatoani Acamapichtli, 1st Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan. She died sp.
  • Tlatoani Toyaotlancatzin, Tlatoani of Coatl-Ichan, married Princess Miccayaocihuatl, daughter of Tlatoani Huitzilihiutl I of Tenochtitlan.

  • Huehue Tezozomoctli, tlatocapilli of Culhuacan, married and had issue.
    • Princess (name unknown), married Illancueitl atlauhtecatl teuhctli, Tlatoani of Atlauhtlan Tzaqualtitlan Tenanco Amecameca at Atenco 1273/1290, and had issue.
      • Tlatoani Itzquauhtzin xocoyotl, Tlatoani of Atlauhtlan 1290/1341
      • Tlatoani Coxcoxtli, Tlatoani of Colhuacan (see above)
  • Tlatoani Xilomantzin,Tlatoani of Culhuacan, married Princess Izquixotzin, daughter of Tlatoani Tlacateotl, 2nd Tlatoani of Tlatelolco, and had issue.
  • Tlatoani Nauhyotl, Tlatoani of Culhuacan, married and had issue.
    • Princess (name unknown), married Prince Tlatolcaltzin of Tenochtitlan, and had issue.
  • Tlatoani Pizotzin, Tlatoani of Culhuacan, hanged by the Spanish in 1521
  • Don Baltasar Toquezquauhyotzon, Tlatoani of Culhuacan, married Doña Juana, daughter of Don Diego de San Francisco Tehetzquititzin, Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.
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