Tetlepanquetzal

Tetlepanquetzal (died 1525) was the fourth Tepanec tlatoani of Tlacopan,[1]: 65  and reigned after 1503 as a tributary of the Mexican emperor Moctezuma II, whom he assisted in the first defence of Mexico. Afterward he was one of the principal auxiliaries of Cuauhtémoc. When the city was finally taken, 13 August, 1521, he was made prisoner and tortured, together with Cuauhtémoc, by the Spaniards to coerce them into revealing the hiding place of the imperial treasure.

Tetlepanquetzal
Tlatoani of Tlacopan
Reign1503 - 1525
Died1525
Itzamkanac, Acalan, Mexico
Names
Tetlepanquetzaltzin

Tetlepanquetzal was present when Hernán Cortes met Moctezuma II for the first time.[2]

Death

When Hernán Cortés marched in October, 1524[3] to Honduras to subdue the revolt of Cristóbal de Olid, he carried the Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc, the tlatoani of Texcoco, Coanacotzin and Tetlepanquetzal with him. Under the pretext that he had discovered a conspiracy, all three were strangled or hanged, with others, during Lent,[3] 1525.

References
  1. León-Portilla, M. 1992, 'The Broken Spears: The Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0807055014
  2. Lockhart, M. 1993, 'We People Here: Nahautl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers, ISBN 1-59244-681-7
  3. Gomara, F. 1966, 'Cortes: The Life of the Conqueror: By his Secretary. London: University of Cambridge Press
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