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Cuauhtlatoa.

Headword: 
Cuauhtlatoa.
Principal English Translation: 

"He Speaks Like an Eagle" was the third ruler of Tlatelolco (see the Florentine Codex); and the conqueror of Quauhtinchan in the year 10 Rabbit (1407?); he took the daughter (Tepexochillama) of the ruler of Quauhtinchan (who was Teuhctlecozauhqui) prisoner to Tlatelolco and made her his wife; and their child, Quauhtomicicuil, became tlatoani (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 218.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhtlatoua, Quauhtlatoa
Attestations from sources in English: 

Quauhtlatoa appears in the Codex Mendoza on fol. 19r. The speech scroll in the glyph of his name is turquoise. (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/index.php?lang=english

Quauhtlatoa, ic ei tlatocat in tlatilulco cempoalxiujtl ipan caxtolli omej xiujtl = Quauhtlatoa [was] the third, and ruled Tlatilulco for thirty-eight years. (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
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), 7.