Nezahualpilli
nezahualpilli (in Nahuatl, Nesawalli 'fasting' and -pilli 'noble': noble that fasts; also written Netzahualpilli ) (1464-1515) was Tlatoani del Altépetl de Tetzcoco when it happened to Nezahualcóyotl in 1473. He was chosen among the children of the Tlatoani, fundamentally because of the fact that his mother was Tenochca, and the political hegemony of Tenochtitlan was the dominant factor.
As his father, he was a poet, he was considered a fair Tlatoani and won the reputation of being a good ruler. He abolished the capital punishment for a certain number of crimes and fought denoded to maintain the political independence of Tetzcoco during the increase in the centralization of the Mexican power of Tenochtitlan. It is said that he had about 144 children.
was crowned a year after his father's death. His reign is the greatest economic, social and cultural flowering. Among the most outstanding facts of this king are the repeal of the death penalty of slaves and adulterers,
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also helped cover the eye of water from water Acuecuexatl, after the flood of Mexico City. The Templo Mayor entered by his father and made great conquests together with the kings of Tenochtitlan.He had a reputation of great forjador of songs and wisdom in relation to divine things.
said that drunkenness disfigures faces, that war ends with everything, that it is irremediable destruction of Jades and feathers of Quetzal. There man covers glory, but friends die.
Nezahualpilli had many problems with Moctezuma II, Tlatoani de Tenochtitlan. Especially in relation to the sightings of strange men on the coasts of the Aztec empire, which confirmed the destruction that Nezahualpilli's father had predicted. There are suspicions that Moctezuma II himself has killed Nezahualpilli so that he did not interfere with the arrival of these men (Spanish).
died in 1515, after governing for forty -four years; His body was incinerated and put his ashes in a golden ark, in the temple of Huitzilopochtli, in Tetzcoco.
Nezahualpilli was happened on the throne of Texcoco by one of his children, Cacamatzin.
Only one of his poems survives and is called icuic nezahualpilli yc tamato huexotzinco ( song of Nezahualpilli during the war with Huexotzinco ). required ]