a noblewoman of Tlatelolco who married Ahuitzotl, a ruler of Tenochtitlan; her father was Epcoatzin, who was a lord of Tlatelolco; Tecapantzin was also the mother of Cuauhtemoc, who ruled both Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco
Auh yn omotocateneuh Ahuitzotzin tlahtohuani tenochtitlan. yn conitlan yn quimocihuahuati tlatilolco cihuapilli ytoca tecapātzin ynin ychpochtzin yn epcohuatzin tlahtocapilli tlatilolco. auh yn ahuitzotzin yn inehuan tecapātzin yehuantin in oquichiuhque oncan otlacat çan icel yn quauhtimoctzin tlahtohuani tenochtitlan yhuan tlatilolco. ynin yehuatl yn quilpique españolesme. yn ihquac poliuh mexicayotl tenochcayotl. yn ipan ylhuitzin S. tipolito. martyr. yn ipan yc 13. agosto. de 1521 años. auh çatepan ompan momiquillito. yn huey mollan ompa quinpilloque yehuan yn Don Pº tetlepanquetzatzin tlahtohuani tlacopan yehuatl ompan quintlatzontequilli yn Don fernando cortes marques del valle Yztlacatlahtoltica. yquac mochintin in vmpa quinhuicac yn tlahtoque. ynin tlahtolli ytech tlaquixtilli yn bintula quimocahuilitiuh Don Alonso ximenez culhuacan chane = And the aforenamed Ahuitzotzin, ruler of Tenochtitlan, asked for and married a Tlatelolco noblewoman named Tecapantzin. She was a daughter of Epcoatzin, a great lord of Tlatelolco. And Ahuitzotzin and Tecapantzin begot and thence was born only one [son], Quauhtemoctzin, ruler of Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. The Spaniards imprisoned him when the Mexica Tenochca state was destroyed on the feast day of St. Hippolytus Martyr, 13 August 1521. And later he died in Huey Mollan; there [the Spaniards] hanged both him and don Pedro Tetlepanquetzatzin, ruler of Tlacopan. Don Hernando Cortéz, Marquéz del Valle, sentenced them on the basis of a lying statement when he took all the rulers there. This account was taken from a painting that don Alonso Jimenéz, a resident of Culhuacan, left. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)