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)
- 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
- 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 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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