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Izquitecatl Iztahuatzin.

Headword: 
Izquitecatl Iztahuatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

This man was also called Izquitecatl tequihua. He was the father of the second (younger) Acamapichtli. He was married to a noblewoman, Atotoztli. (all according to Chimalpahin)

(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, 88–89.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Izquitecatl tequihua was also called a Chichimecatl, and he was said to be an ordinary Mexica, a resident of Chapultepec. He was father of the younger Acamapichtli who became the "first ruler of Tenochtitlan."
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, 90–91.