Chimalpilli II (died in year 2 Técpatl) was a Tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) Ecatepec, in 16th-century Mesoamerica.

The first known tlatoani of Ecatepec was Chimalpilli I, grandson of an Aztec tlatoani.

Chimalpilli II

The successor of Chimalpilli II was Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin, who also became tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, as well as its governor (Cabildo of San Juan Tenochtitlan) under the colonial Spanish system of government.

Chimalpilli II

Family

Chimalpilli was a son of Aztec tlatoani Ahuitzotl and grandson of Atotoztli II (daughter of Moctezuma I) and Tezozomoc. He was a nephew of tlatoani Axayacatl and Tizoc and of Chalchiuhnenetzin; and cousin of Moctezuma II and Cuitláhuac.

Chimalpilli II

His brother was tlatoani Cuauhtémoc.

See also

List of Tenochtitlan rulers

Isabel Moctezuma, sister-in-law of Chimalpilli

References

Tlatoque of Ecatepec

Nahua nobility

16th-century monarchs in North America

16th-century indigenous people of the Americas

1510s in the Aztec civilization