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Ahuachpitzactzin.

Headword: 
Ahuachpitzactzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; e.g. don Carlos Ahuachpitzactzin was a Tetzcocan noble who was active in the battles shortly after the Cortés expedition came into central Mexico; he assumed the rule in Tetzcoco after Coanacochtzin; but he was not a strong supporter of Cortés, so the Captain had Coanacochtzin re-installed in place of the younger brother (central Mexico, early 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, 194–195, 198–199.

Orthographic Variants: 
Ahuachpitzac
themes: 
Imperialism (Spanish)
Names (for people, deities)
Politics, Power, Governance