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a noble of Ocotelolco (Ocotelulco, today) who was present at the encounter with Hernando Cortés in 1519 outside of Tizatlan; when he died in 1520, he was succeeded by his son Lorenzo Maxixcatl
Maxixcatzin appears in the Texas Fragment of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala from the 1540s, looking back on his presence in the encounter with Cortés in 1519.
For a much later--but still colonial--portrait of Maxixcatzin, see the reproduction of a painting in the Tlaxcala Regional Museum. His clothing has become much more Europeanized in this later memory.
Maxixcatzin died in 1520, and both Hernando Cortés and Bernal Díaz lamented the loss of their ally. Cortés said "he was a great friend of mine."
