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The '''Ilok'tab Dynasty''', is an [[Ajax|Ajaxi]] royal house and one of the three clans that founded and ruled over the [[Kingdom of K'umarkaj]], with the [[Numa]] and the [[Tamub]]. As such, they were an important '''Nimja''', "Great House", of the {{wp|K'iche people|K'iche}} and its members had numerous roles, in the military or the administration of the kingdom.
The '''Ilok'tab Dynasty''', is an [[Ajax|Ajaxi]] royal house and one of the three clans that founded and ruled over the [[Kingdom of K'umarkaj]], with the [[Numa]] and the [[Tamub]]. As such, they were an important '''Nimja''', "Great House", of the {{wp|K'iche people|K'iche}} and its members had numerous roles, in the military or the administration of the kingdom.


In 1010, the last [[Divine Monarchy of the Mutul|K'uhul Ajaw]] of the [[Cho'ok Dynasty]] died, leaving behind him no eligible heir. Three of his vassals, each married to one of the Divine King's daugthers, claimed the throne for themselves and started a bloody civil war that divided the [[Mutul]]. With only a small stop during the rule of [[Jakab I]], the first and only K'uhul Ajaw of the [[Ninth Dynasty]], there was no central authority in the Divine Kingdom.
The Ilok'tab were one of the three most important lineages in the K'iche Kingdom, alongside the '''K'iche''' (not to be mistaken with the ethnies itself) and the '''Tamub''''. The K'iche appears in history during the 10th century CE after their conquest of the Chujuyop Valley in south-east [[Mutul]] and the foundation of their first capital [[Xakalwitz]]. The Ilok'tab were then a powerful family of generals and warriors, with most of the highest-ranking officers of the ''Ajpop'', the King, army being recruited from their ranks. The House itself was divided in multiple lineages, the most important of which were the '''Sik'a'''' and the '''Wamja'''.


The original claimants died off, but their conflict was passed on to their children. In 1078, wanting to break the tie between him and his cousins, [[Waho' Kan Mamil]], one of the pretenders, started tractations with the [[Q'umarkaj Kingdom]], which lead to an alliance and a marriage between the Ajpop and Waho' youngest sister in 1079. This brought the might of the [[Q'umarkaj Kingdom]] into the war and by 1081, it was fully involved and started to conquer land for its allies.
After the conquest of the [[Mam Kingdom]] by the K'iche, it was offered to the Ilok'tab to become a vassal principality under the Ajpop's rule. The {{wp|Mam people|Mam}} heartland would remain the core possession of the Ilok'tab House until their rise to the Divine Throne, two centuries later.
 
After numerous victorious campaigns the K'iche King, the Ajpop, was convinced by his generals, partisans, and his wife, to betray [[Waho' Kan Mamil]] and to claim for himself the title of [[K'uhul Ajaw]], which he fully secured in 1090.
 
At the time, the Ilok'tab controled most of the Ajpop armies and officers, and even married some of their children to the [[Numa Dynasty]]. Their full support of the latter was one of the reasons why the Ajpop was able to secure his control over the [[Mutul]] and even to move his capital away from Q'umarkaj and into the Divine Kingdom, to reinforce his claim as legitimate inheritor of the [[K'uhul Ajaw]]title.
 
However, in 1121, [[Ajkan I]], the very young – 7 years old – Divine King, died of illness without a nominated heir. The Ilok'tab, because of their wealth, power and links to the Nima, were serious pretenders to the title of K'uhul Ajaw. But the [[Nimjalob Ch'ob]], an assembly of all the Nimja of the Mutul created by the [[Numa Dynasty]], decided to recognize [[K'okaib I]], Patriarch of the [[Tamub Dynasty]] as Divine King. The Ilok'tab and their partisans, however, were still numerous and even if they never outright opposed the [[Tamub]] hold on the throne, they sheer power and wealth and their link with the growing merchants and traders communities and the army, never allowed [[K'okaib I]] and his heirs to enjoy the same level of power as their predecessors.
 
The final rise to power by the Ilok'tab was when the [[Nimjalob Ch'ob]] deposed [[Konache II]] in 1205 because of his mental illness and young age, and elected [[Jasaw Chan K'awill III]], Patriarch of the Ilok'tab Nimja, as [[K'uhul Ajaw]]. He then quickly married the mother of the deposed king, and secured the Divine King's powers into his hands and passed it to his children. To this day, the Ilok'tab, as the XIIth Dynasty of the Mutul, still control the divine throne.


==Wealth==
==Wealth==

Revision as of 19:22, 17 August 2019

12th Dynasty
Ajaw-Ilok'tab Nimja
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The Dynasty kept the Glyph of Sakule, the capital of the Mam Kingdom, as their Glyph-Emblem
Parent houseIlok'tab
Country Mutul
FoundedAD 1205
FounderJasaw Chan K'awill III
Current headJasaw Chan K'awiil V
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Origins and history

The Ilok'tab Dynasty, is an Ajaxi royal house and one of the three clans that founded and ruled over the Kingdom of K'umarkaj, with the Numa and the Tamub. As such, they were an important Nimja, "Great House", of the K'iche and its members had numerous roles, in the military or the administration of the kingdom.

The Ilok'tab were one of the three most important lineages in the K'iche Kingdom, alongside the K'iche (not to be mistaken with the ethnies itself) and the Tamub'. The K'iche appears in history during the 10th century CE after their conquest of the Chujuyop Valley in south-east Mutul and the foundation of their first capital Xakalwitz. The Ilok'tab were then a powerful family of generals and warriors, with most of the highest-ranking officers of the Ajpop, the King, army being recruited from their ranks. The House itself was divided in multiple lineages, the most important of which were the Sik'a' and the Wamja.

After the conquest of the Mam Kingdom by the K'iche, it was offered to the Ilok'tab to become a vassal principality under the Ajpop's rule. The Mam heartland would remain the core possession of the Ilok'tab House until their rise to the Divine Throne, two centuries later.

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