{{Infobox royalty | name =Chimalpilli II | succession = ''Tlatoani'' of Ecatepec | successor = Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin |image= |image_size= |father=Ahuitzotl<ref>Hassig, Ross (1988): ''Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control''. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.</ref> |mother=Unknown |house-type=Dynasty |house= Royal family of Tenochtitlan |predecessor=Matlaccohuatl<ref>''Arqueología de superficie en San Cristóbal Ecatepec, Estado de México: un estudio del desarrollo de las fuerzas productivas en el México prehispánico'' by Humberto Domínguez Chávez, Wilfrido Du Solier</ref> }} '''Chimalpilli II''' (died in year 2 Técpatl) was a Tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua ''altepetl'' (city-state) Ecatepec, in 16th-century Mesoamerica.<ref name="ReferenceA">''Moctezuma's children: Aztec royalty under Spanish rule, 1520-1700'' by Donald E. Chipman</ref>
The first known ''tlatoani'' of Ecatepec was Chimalpilli I, grandson of an Aztec ''tlatoani''.
The successor of Chimalpilli II was Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin, who also became ''tlatoani'' of Tenochtitlan, as well as its governor (Cabildo of San Juan Tenochtitlan) under the colonial Spanish system of government.
== Family == Chimalpilli was a son of Aztec ''tlatoani'' Ahuitzotl and grandson of Atotoztli II (daughter of Moctezuma I) and Tezozomoc. He was a nephew of ''tlatoani'' Axayacatl and Tizoc and of Chalchiuhnenetzin; and cousin of Moctezuma II and Cuitláhuac.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name="Cuauhtlehuanitzin1997">{{cite book|last=Cuauhtlehuanitzin|first=Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin|authorlink=Chimalpahin |title=Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan and other Nahua Altepetl in central Mexico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSNdzTEHU_sC&pg=PA111|accessdate=16 October 2011|date=September 1997|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-2950-1|page=111}}</ref>
His brother was ''tlatoani'' Cuauhtémoc.<ref>{{cite book |author=Restall, Matthew |authorlink=Matthew Restall |year=2004 |title=Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest |location=Oxford and New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=1st pbk|isbn=0-19-517611-1 |oclc=56695639}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Mexico|Biography}} *List of Tenochtitlan rulers *Isabel Moctezuma, sister-in-law of Chimalpilli
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