Maxixcatl

{{More citations needed|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Maxixcatl | image =MaxixcatzinTlaxRegMus.JPG | image_size = 200px | caption =Painting of Maxixcatzin in Tlaxcala Regional Museum | succession = ''Tlatoani'' of Ocotelolco | reign = ? - 1520 | predecessor = Cuitlixcatl | successor = Lorenzo Maxixcatl | birth_date = | death_date = 1520 | father = | issue = Lorenzo Maxixcatl }} '''Maxixcatl''' (also often given, in its Nahuatl honorific form, as '''Maxixcatzin''') was the tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Ocotelolco, one of the four towns that formed the state of Tlaxcallān. He was one of the main signatories of the alliance with Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

==Biography== Maxixcatzin was instrumental in forming the alliance between Tlaxcallān and the Spanish force of Hernán Cortés against the Aztecs.<ref name=Diaz>Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, {{ISBN|0140441239}}</ref>{{rp|140–188}} He gave his daughter Zicuetzin—baptized as Luisa—to Juan Velazquez de Leon, both of whom were killed on La Noche Triste.<ref name=Diaz/>{{rp|307}}

Maxixcatl died in the smallpox epidemic which decimated the indigenous population of central Mexico in 1520.<ref name=Diaz/>{{rp|311}} He was succeeded by his 13-year-old son Lorenzo Maxixcatl.

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==Further reading== *Hassig, Ross (2001) [https://web.archive.org/web/20071009062232/http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/cultura_nahuatl/ecnahuatl32/ECN03204.pdf#search=%22Xicotencatl%20%22 "Xicotencatl: rethinking an indigenous Mexican hero"], Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, UNAM (Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl).

{{s-start}} {{succession box | before= Cuitlixcatl| title=Tlatoani of Ocotelolco | years= ca. 1500 - 1520| after= Lorenzo Maxixcatl }} {{s-end}}

Category:16th-century deaths Category:Tlatoque Category:Tlaxcaltec nobility Category:Year of birth unknown