Xicotencatl Axayacatzin, the Tlaxcalan lord executed by Cortés

Son of Xicotencatl the elder of Tepeticpac, Tlaxcalan war-leader at Spanish contact and principal Tlaxcalan opponent of the alliance with Cortés. After the alliance was made he was executed at Texcoco during the march on Tenochtitlan for turning back from the campaign. Diego Muñoz Camargo, writing from inside the confederation, records the Tlaxcalan lords themselves ruling their captain to death under their own war law, and names the succession his line kept afterwards.