Tezozomoc of Ecatepec

Tezozomoc (modern Nahuatl pronunciation^ⓘ) was the second tlatoani (ruler) of altepetl Ecatepec, in 15th-century Mesoamerica.^[1]

Biography

Tezozomoc was a son of an Aztec tlatoani Chimalpopoca, ruler of Tenochtitlan. His mother may have been Matlalatzin.

He was a grandson of tlatoani Huitzilihuitl and Ayauhcihuatl, who was a daughter of the Tepanec tlatoani Tezozomoc, ruler of Azcapotzalco.

He was a relative of and successor tlatoani to Chimalpilli I in 1465. His successor was Matlaccohuatl.^[1]

1 2 Explorations in ethnohistory: Indians of central Mexico in the sixteenth century by H. R. Harvey, Hanns J. Prem

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