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Maxixcatl
Funeral urn
Tlatoani of Ocotelolco
Reign	? - 1520
Predecessor	Cuitlixcatl
Successor	Lorenzo Maxixcatl
Died	1520
Issue	Lorenzo Maxixcatl

Maxixcatl^[1] was the tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Ocotelolco at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Ocotelolco was one of the four towns that formed the state of Tlaxcallan. Mase Ecasi gave his daughter, baptized as Dona Luisa, to Juan Velazquez de Leon, both of whom were killed on La Noche Triste.^[2]: 307 Maxixcatzin was instrumental in forming the alliance between Tlaxcallan and the Spanish force of Hernán Cortés against the Aztecs.^{[2]: 140–188} Maxixcatl died in the smallpox epidemic which decimated the indigenous population of central Mexico in 1520.^[2]: 311

He was succeeded by his 13-year-old son Lorenzo Maxixcatl.

See also

• Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
• Xicotencatl II
• Xicotencatl the Elder

References

Further reading

• Hassig, Ross (2001) "Xicotencatl: rethinking an indigenous Mexican hero", Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, UNAM (Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl).

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