Moctezuma Ier

See also: Moctezuma

Moctezuma Ier (in Nahuatl, Motecuzoma Ilhuicamina ) is an emperor Aztèque who reigns of 1440 with 1469. He is the son of Huitzilihuitl and the nephew and successor of Itzcoatl. Moctezuma is the true founder of the empire and the Aztec power. He undertakes a whole series of war against his neighbors, victorious the Otomis of Xilotepec and seizes the territories corresponding to the current States of Guerrero, Morelos, Puebla and Oaxaca with the Mexico i.e. in north, the south and the south-east of current the Mexico City. Its troops probably reach probably the coast of the Gulf of Mexico towards current the Veracruz.

It organizes a forwarding towards the probably mythical city of Aztlan, fatherland of origin of the Aztèques, located in the North-West of current Mexico according to the sources, according to the legends of these people, but this one fails. Moctezuma undertook also the construction of a gigantic temple with Tenochtitlán, makes carve its effigy in the city of Chapultepec . It takes energetic measures which save its people of the consecutive famine to the dryness which touches the area of 1454 with 1456.

Axayacatl succeeds to him in 1469.

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