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Xiuhtomiyauhtzin.

Headword: 
Xiuhtomiyauhtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

the wife of Tlacateotzin, ruler of Tlatelolco; she was the "leading woman of his house" (as he had several wives); this one had many famous children; her son Acolmitzli, was a "great nobleman in Tlatelolco;" her son Tezozomoctli, ruled in Quauhtitlan; her son Epcoatzin was a "great lord in Tlatelolco;" her daughter Chalchiuhnenetzin married Maxtlatzin of Coyoacan; another child was named Mizquixahualtzin; another was a daughter, Ixquixotzin, who married Xilomantzin, the ruler of Culhuacan

(central Mexico, 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, 112–113.