Moyolenolli
Moyolenolli | |
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.jpg) An engraving from 1967 in Tlajoyotl | |
| First and Fourth Topilecahua | |
| In office 18 November 1620 – 7 April 1634 | |
| Preceded by | Tetzotl |
| Succeeded by | Position dissolved |
| In office 29 March 1613 – 19 October 1619 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Teuixahual |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 2, 1594 Moliropa, Viceroyalty of Valora |
| Died | July 4, 1634 (aged 40) Zocalo, Cidade do Ouro |
| Domestic partner | Yoloxochitl |
| Children | Nezahualpilli |
| Parent | Meztli (mother) |
Born in 1594 (May 2, 1594 - July 4, 1634) to Meztli, a former Natik Royal Princess, and an unknown father, her birth was documented at the Moliropa Slave Market. She was purchased on July 13 later that year by the Ochavino Eneas Plantation, as a baby she sold for only one imperial dollar and was separated from her mother. By 1600, she was working on the plantation, and assisted in corn and cassava agriculture. She worked at the plantation until 1612, when she incited a slave revolt against the slave holders. After the Christmas Slave Uprising that year, she established the Tlahtocayotl Tlaca xoxouhcayotl in 1613, and was the leader of the country.
In her personal diaries, which were preserved by an Imperial soldier, she detailed her life as the leader. In January 1612, he met Yoloxochitl, a Mexal woman who was approximately the same age as her, and she clearly states that she held a strong romantic attraction to her, to the extent that they treated each other as spouses in all but name. As leader of the Republic, she imposed a fairly transparent yet authoritarian policy until she was overthrown in 1619 by religious extremists. When she was exiled, she left with her partner. While leaving, a