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Tlazolyaotzin.

Headword: 
Tlazolyaotzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlaçolyaotzin, Tlazolyauhtzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc chicunauj tlatoanj itoca tlaçoliautzin in tlatocat vmpoalxiujtl ioan caxtolxiujtl ioan exiujtl = The ninth ruler was named Tlaçolyaotzin; he ruled fifty-eight years. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 13.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Tlazolyauhtzin: Se refiere, tal vez, al enemigo sucio, pecaminoso Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 193.

Don Juan Tlazolyaotzin, hijo bastardo (calpanpilli) de Cotzatzin, sucede a Cotzatzin en 7 Casa, 1525. Luego "Tlazoyaotzin murió en 2 Casa, 1533."
Pedro Carrasco, "Sucesión y alianzas matrimoniales en la disnastía Teotihuacana," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 235–241, ver la pág. 238.