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Totolquentzaltzin.

Headword: 
Totolquentzaltzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a son of Nezahualpilli of Tetzcoco; lost his power when Cortés arrived; sent to Coatzaqualco; said to have been killed there upon orders of Coanacochtzin and Ixtlilxochitzin

(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, 198–199.

Orthographic Variants: 
Totolquetzaletzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

auh in oaçito yn ichanpā in capitan cenca ye tlayhiyohuia in totiachcahuan yn ipilhuā neçahualpiltzintli in huitlalotzin. nehuā in totolquētzaletzin. = And when the Captain arrived in his home, much did our elder brothers, Neçahualpiltzintli's sons, suffer- both Huitlalotzin and Totolquentzaltzin. (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, 198–199.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance