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Cacamatzin

Cacamatzin (or Cacama) (c. 1483–1520) was the tlatoani (ruler) of Texcoco, the second most important city of the Aztec Empire.

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Royalty.name: Cacamatzin
Royalty.image: Cacamatzin, ~1494 - 7-1520, retrato anónimo (siglo XVI).png
Royalty.image_size: 200 px
Royalty.caption: Cacamatzin as depicted in a 16th-century manuscript
Royalty.succession: Tlatoani of Texcoco
Royalty.reign: 1515 – 1520
Royalty.predecessor: Nezahualpilli
Royalty.successor: Coanacochtzin
Royalty.birth_date: c. 1483
Royalty.death_date: 1520
Royalty.father: Nezahualpilli

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Cacamatzin (or Cacama) (c. 1483–1520) was the tlatoani (ruler) of Texcoco, the second most important city of the Aztec Empire.

Cacamatzin was a son of the previous king Nezahualpilli by one of his mistresses. Traditionally, the Texcocan kings were elected by the nobility from the most able of the royal family. Cacamatzin's election to the throne in 1515 was said to have been made under considerable pressure from Moctezuma II, lord of Tenochtitlán. Moctezuma II wished to lessen Texcoco's power in favor of greater centralization in Tenochtitlán.