Event
Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally
After fighting him, the lords of Tlaxcala made peace with Cortés in 1519 and joined him against Moctezuma's rule; Bernal Díaz gives their reasons from memory.
- Dates
- 1519
- Place
- Tlaxcala
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- interventions Maxixcatzin 1519
- involved Tlaxcala
- involved Maxixcatzin
- involved Hernán Cortés
According to Florentine Codex
- involved Tlaxcala
After fighting him, the lords of Tlaxcala made peace with Cortés in 1519 and joined him against Moctezuma’s rule; Bernal Díaz gives their reasons from memory.
Connections 6
interventions
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Maxixcatzin
1519
spoke for Tlaxcala in the council
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Primary record
1
Bernal Díaz gives a speech to Maxixcatzin; it is his version.
involved
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Tlaxcala
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Primary record
1
Bernal Díaz reports a speech by the Tlaxcalan lord Xicotencatl, from memory. No account written by a Tlaxcalan was read for this story.
- Maxixcatzin According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 1
- Hernán Cortés According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 1
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Tlaxcala
According to Florentine Codex
Primary record
2
On the killing at Cholula, Book 12 says the Tlaxcalans had incited the Spaniards against the people of Cholula.
appears in
- True History of the Conquest of New Spain Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1519 Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally
- 1519 Maxixcatzin intervened in Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Proof 2 sources
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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, volume 1 (English translation by John Ingram Lockhart, 1844; text via Project Gutenberg #32474), Project Gutenberg (from the translation published in London, 1844), 1844.
Primary record
Every province was compelled to pay him tribute, consisting in gold, silver, feathers, precious stones, cotton stuffs, as well as Indians of both sexes
they believed we had been sent by their enemy Motecusuma, who had often before used fraud and treachery to enter their country for the sake of plunder
they were in want of salt to savour their victuals, as Motecusuma would not allow them to stir out of their country to procure it
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Florentine Codex, Book 12: The Conquest of Mexico (Nahuatl text gathered under Bernardino de Sahagún in the 1500s; English translation by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, second edition, 1975), School of American Research and the University of Utah; the manuscript is on the Getty Research Institute's Digital Florentine Codex, 1975.
Primary record
For in truth the Tlaxcallans had incited [the Spaniards] against them.
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