Teotlalco (Ecatepec) Tenochtitlán (abt. 1478 - aft. 1525)

Born about 1478 in Ecatepec, Imperio Mexica

Wife of Tlatoani Moctezuma II — married [date unknown] in Estado-Ciucdad de Tenochitlan, Mexico

Descendants

Died after 1525 after about age 47 in Tenochtitlán, Imperio Mexica

Biography

Teotlalco's was the daughter of Matlaccohuatl, Tlatoani of Ecatepec, in the Valley of Mexico.^[1] She was born around 1478 CE and was a young woman when Herman Cortes arrived from Spain and conquered the Aztec Empire of pre-Columbian Mexico in just a few years. Her father was killed by June 30, 1521 when the Spanish deposed Moctezuma and took over the Aztec Empire.

Teotlalco was a Nahua princess of Ecatepec and Aztec Queen [= Cihuātlahtoāni] of Tenochtitlan. Teotlalco was Aztec ruler Moctezuma's principal wife and mother of Isabel Moctezuma, who married his successor, Cuitláhuac. She died in the 1520s CE.

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Teotlalco.

See also:

• Arqueología de superficie en San Cristóbal Ecatepec, Estado de México: un estudio del desarrollo de las fuerzas productivas en el México prehispánico by Humberto Domínguez Chávez, Wilfrido Du Solier.

• "Moctezuma's children: Aztec royalty under Spanish rule, 1520-1700," by Donald E. Chipman.