Atotoztli II
Atotoztli ( ) or Huitzilxochtzin ( ) was a daughter of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma I and Chichimecacihuatzin I, the daughter of Cuauhtototzin, the ruler of Cuauhnahuac. She married Tezozomoc, son of the previous emperor Itzcoatl, and gave birth to three sons who would later become emperors themselves: Axayacatl, Tizoc, and Ahuitzotl. Some sources indicate she served as tlatoani herself. The Anales de Tula and Relación de la Genealogía state she ruled the Triple Alliance herself, possibly for as long as 30 years. If true, the records of the Mexica may have omitted her from the records because she was a woman. On the other hand, the documents supporting these claims were not contemporary, and made on request of Juan Cano de Saavedra to support the claims of his wife Isabel Moctezuma as heiress to Tenochtitlan. She could have acted as regent, or ruler stand-in, for her son Ahuitzotl, who may have been too young to act as a ruler upon his grandfather's death. It seems likely she was the tlatoani without the ordinal number, or she held authority along the lines Europeans would describe as a king's regent, because the next ruler after Moctezuma I was her son Axayacatl. See also

List of Tenochtitlan rulers
Aztec emperors family tree

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Aztec nobility
15th-century indigenous people of the Americas
15th-century births
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
15th-century women rulers