Huitzilxotzin

{{short description|Tenochca noble}}

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| issue = Prince Tlatolqaca

| title = Queen of Tenochtitlan

| spouse = King Acamapichtli

| father = Tenqacatetl

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Huitzilxotzin ({{audio|Witsilxochtsin.ogg|modern Nahuatl pronunciation}}) was a Queen of Tenochtitlan as a wife of Aztec emperor Acamapichtli. She was a daughter of Tenqacatetl and mother of Prince Tlatolqaca. She was a grandmother of Princes Cahualtzin, Tetlepanquetzatzin and Tecatlapohuatzin.

See also

{{Portal|Mexico|Biography}}

Sources

  • {{cite book |author=Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón |authorlink=Chimalpahin |year=1997 |chapter=Mexican History or Chronicle |title=Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin |others=Edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=25–177 |isbn=0-8061-2921-2}}