Chimalpopoca (Moctezuma)
Chimalpopoca is identified by some sources as a son of the Tlatoani Moctezuma II, not be confused with an earlier Aztec ruler of the same name. According to some authors he was taken out of Tenochtitlan as a prisoner with other noble men by the Spaniards during the Noche Triste, when he was killed being struck with a bolt from a crossbow. [1]: 87
References[]
- ^ León-Portilla, M. 1992, 'The Broken Spears: The Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0807055014
- Orozco y Berra, Manuel; Historia Antigua y de la Conquista de México; Ciudad de México, 1888. Volume IV, pp 445 and 446.
- González-Obregón, Luis; Las Calles de México; Ciudad de México, 1992. Page 6.
Categories:
- Aztec nobility
- Moctezuma family
- 15th-century indigenous people of the Americas
- 16th-century indigenous people of the Americas
- 16th-century Mexican people
- 1480s births
- 1520s deaths
- 1500s in the Aztec civilization
- 1510s in the Aztec civilization
- 1520s in the Aztec civilization
- Mesoamerica stubs