Maxixcatl

Maxixcatl
Painting of Maxixcatzin in Tlaxcala Regional Museum
Tlatoani of Ocotelolco
Reign? - 1520
PredecessorCuitlixcatl
SuccessorLorenzo Maxixcatl
Died1520 (1521)
IssueLorenzo Maxixcatl

Maxixcatl (also often given, in its Nahuatl honorific form, as Maxixcatzin) was the tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) of Ocotelolco, one of the four towns that formed the state of Tlaxcallān. He was one of the main signatories of the alliance with Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.