Person
Maxixcatzin
Leading lord of Tlaxcala who sat in the council that took Cortés as an ally; Cortés writes that he died of smallpox.
- Also known as
- Magiscatcin
- Wikidata
- Q65174022
Leading lord of Tlaxcala who sat in the council that took Cortés as an ally; Cortés writes that he died of smallpox.
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intervened in
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Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally
1519
spoke for Tlaxcala in the council
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Primary record
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Bernal Díaz gives a speech to Maxixcatzin; it is his version.
- Smallpox in Mexico, 1520 1520–1521 died of smallpox Primary record 2
involved in
- Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 1
- Smallpox in Mexico, 1520 Primary record 2
Timeline 2 dates
- 1519 Maxixcatzin intervened in Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- 1520–1521 Maxixcatzin intervened in Smallpox in Mexico, 1520
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
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Letters of Cortés: the five letters of relation to the Emperor Charles V, volume 2 (English translation by Francis Augustus MacNutt, 1908; the Third Letter is dated 15 May 1522), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1908.
Primary record
told me how Magiscatcin, who was the principal lord of all of them, had died of that illness, the small-pox
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