Quinatzin (full name: Quinatzin Tlaltecatzin) (kinat͡sin t͡ɬaltekat͜sin, ) was a King of ancient Texcoco, an Acolhua city-state in Mexico. He was the first known ruler of that city and is also known as Quinatzin II.The Encyclopædia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts..., volume 14, edition 2.History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca by John Bierhorst
It was Quinatzin who transferred the seat of Chichimec power to Texcoco, relegating the city of Tenayuca to a site of secondary importance.The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics by Jongsoo Lee. Page 81.
The father of Quinatzin was Tlotzin Pochotl, son of Nopaltzin, son of Xolotl, and his mother was a noblewoman named Icpacxochitl.In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic past in early colonial period by Eduardo de J. Douglas. 2010. Page 116.
Quinatzin's wife was a Princess from Huejotla, Queen Cuauhcihuatzin,In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic past in early colonial period by Eduardo de J. Douglas. 2010. Page 116. mother of his successor Techotlalatzin.Offner (1979, p. 231). Her grandson was Ixtlilxochitl I.Davies (1980, p.129); Smith (1984, p.170). Smith himself further references Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Juan Bautista de Pomar and Chimalpahin.
Quinatzin’s mother-in-law was called Tomiyauh.Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la HistoriaEl Santo Juan Diego el mensajero indígena de la Virgen de Guadalupe. Written by Asunción García Samper and Rossana Enríquez Argüello.Tlatelolco a través de los tiempos: serie de estudios, edition 1-6
See also
Mapa Quinatzin, a 16th-century Nahua pictorial document
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