Cuitláhuac: Difference between revisions

| name = Cuitláhuac

| image = Cuitlahuac2.jpg

| caption = Cuitláhuac in the ''[[Primeros Memoriales]]''.

| succession = ''[[Huey Tlatoani]]'' of the [[Aztec Empire]] <br> [[List of Tenochtitlan rulers|''Tlatoani'' of Tenochtitlan]]

| reign = [[Aztec calendar|2 Flint]]<br>1520

| predecessor = [[Montezuma II]]

| successor = [[Cuauhtémoc]]

| successor2 = [[Ixhuetzcatocatzin]] (Alonso)

| spouse = A daughter of [[Moteixcahuia Quauhtlehuanitzin]]

| issue = =[[Ixhuetzcatocatzin]] (Alonso)<br>Ana<br>Luisa<br>two others

| father = [[Axayacatl]]

| mother = A daughter of [[Cuitlahuatzin I|Cuitlahuac I]]

| birth_date = c. 1476

| death_date = [[Aztec calendar|2 Flint]] (1520; aged 44)

'''Cuitláhuac''' ({{IPA-|es|kwiˈtlawak|-|Cuitlahuac1.ogg}}, {{audio|Kuitlawatsin.ogg|modern Nahuatl pronunciation}}) (c. 1476 – 1520)<ref>For year of birth, see entry for [http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal/1.hist/CU.html#CUITLAHUAC "CUITLAHUAC"], ''Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique'' (Wimmer 2006).</ref> or '''Cuitláhuac''' (in Spanish orthography; {{lang-nah|Cuitlāhuac}},<ref>Wimmer (2006).</ref> {{IPA-nah|kʷiˈt͡ɬaːwak}}, honorific form: '''Cuitlahuatzin''') was the 10th ''[[Huey Tlatoani]]'' (emperor) of the [[Aztec]] city of [[Tenochtitlan]] for 80 days during the year [[Aztec calendar|Two Flint]] (1520).<ref name="cha">Chimalpahin (1997): pp. 56–57, 164–165, 216–217.</ref> He is credited with leading the resistance to the [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire|Spanish and Tlaxcalteca conquest]] of the [[Mexica]] Empire, following the death of his kinsman [[Moctezuma II]].

[[Category:16th-century indigenous peopleleaders of the Americas]]