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Icpacxochitzin.

Headword: 
Icpacxochitzin.
Principal English Translation: 

an indigenous nobleman associated with Tetzcoco at the time of the battles of the Cortés expedition; he may have had a younger brother named don Carlos whom Cortés installed as ruler

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 196–197.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn cohuanacochtzin quimihtalhuia yn tlatoani in capitan. niqualihua yn nopiltzin yn icpacxochitl. in onpa tlaxcalla in quilhuico. yn cohuanacoch. in çan quīhualnamiquiz nopilhuan auh nicnotza yn icpacxochitl çan nimā neçiz yn axcā tle yca / = The ruler, the Captain, said to Coanacochtzin: I am sending here my son Icpacxochitl to Tlaxcala. He said to Coanacochtzin: He is peacefully to meet my sons. And I announce to Icpacxochitzin that he is to appear at once, now. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 196–197.