Cacamatzin
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Cacamatzin (or Cacama) (c. 1483–1520) was the tlatoani (ruler) of Texcoco, the second most important city of the Aztec Empire.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Cacamatzin
- Royalty.image
- Cacamatzin, ~1494 - 7-1520, retrato anónimo (siglo XVI).png
- Royalty.image_size
- 200 px
- Royalty.caption
- Cacamatzin as depicted in a 16th-century manuscript
- Royalty.succession
- Tlatoani of Texcoco
- Royalty.reign
- 1515 – 1520
- Royalty.predecessor
- Nezahualpilli
- Royalty.successor
- Coanacochtzin
- Royalty.birth_date
- c. 1483
- Royalty.death_date
- 1520
- Royalty.father
- Nezahualpilli
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Cacamatzin (or Cacama) (c. 1483–1520) was the tlatoani (ruler) of Texcoco, the second most important city of the Aztec Empire.
Cacamatzin was a son of the previous king Nezahualpilli by one of his mistresses. Traditionally, the Texcocan kings were elected by the nobility from the most able of the royal family. Cacamatzin's election to the throne in 1515 was said to have been made under considerable pressure from Moctezuma II, lord of Tenochtitlán. Moctezuma II wished to lessen Texcoco's power in favor of greater centralization in Tenochtitlán.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cacamatzin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.