 During his rule, the Aztec titles and decorations were suppressed by the Spanish rulers.In 1530, Motelchiuhtzin went with the Spaniards to an expedition to Teocolhuacan, against the Chichimeca and in Aztatlan was wounded by a Chichimecan arrow while he was bathing, and died of the wound .He left a son called Hernando de Tapia.