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Hueyi Tlatoani (Nahuatl "great speaker", also spelt Uei Tlatoani or Huey Tlahtoani; plural Hueyi Tlatoque) was the Nahuatl title used for the emperor of the Mexica (Aztec). They were rulers of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, and as such became the heads of the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlān, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.

The title of tlatoani has often been translated as 'Aztec emperor'. The succession of tlatoque was not passed on by direct inheritance. The tlatoani was elected by a consensus of the Aztec élite. The tlatoani was the head of government and the army, and also the high priest of the Mexica.

Tenoch, the legendary founder of Tenochtitlān, was the first tlatoani of the city. He was followed by eleven tlatoque in succession, under whom the Mexicas built a powerful Mesoamerican state, only to be eventually overcome by the alliance of the rival kingdom the of Tlaxcala and their allies, the Spanish conquistadores of Hernán Cortés

[edit] List of tlatoque of Tenochtitlan

Tenoch Acamapichtli Huitzilíhuitl Chimalpopoca Itzcóatl Moctezuma I Axayacatl Tízoc Ahuitzotl Moctezuma II Cuitláhuac Cuauhtémoc

(1325–1376) (1376–1395) (1395–1417) (1417–1427) (1427–1440) (1440–1469) (1469–1481) (1481–1486) (1486–1502) (1502–1520) (1520) (1520–1525, formally abdicated in 1521)

[edit] Appointed under Spanish rule

Diego Velázquez Tlacotzin Andrés de Tapia Motelchiuh Pablo Xochiquentzin Diego Huanitzin Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquitizin Esteban de Guzmán regent Cristóbal de Guzmán Cecetzin Luis de Santa María Nanacacipactzin

(1525–1526) (1526–1530) (1532–1536) (1539–1541) (1541–1554) (1554-1556) (1557-1562) (1563-1565)

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