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Juan de Santo Domingo de Mendoza Tlacaeleltzin

His mother was Quetzalpetlatzin, don Tomás's first wife, who (according to Chimalpahin) was a Mexica noblewoman, the daughter of Tlilpotoncatzin, cihuacoatl of Tenochtitlan, thus making don Juan the great grandson of the cihuacoatl Tlacaelel, his namesake.

Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin

Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin was Cihuacoatl (counselor) during the tenure of Moctezuma II, and Cuauhtémoc.

Simon Levack

All are set in Precolumbian Mexico on the eve of the Spanish colonization of the Americas and feature as the protagonist Yaotl, a fictitious slave to Tlilpotonqui, the Cihuacóatl or chief minister in the Aztec state of Tenochtitlan under Hueyi Tlatoani, or Emperor, Moctezuma II.


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