Nezahualpilli (1464-1515) was king of Texcoco. He his father Nezahualcoyotl after Nezahualcoyotl's death in 1473, being elected by the city's nobility as the most able of the old king's sons.
Like his father, he was known as a poet and sage. He was said to have fathered 144 children. He had the reputation of a fair ruler, and abolished capital punishment for a number of crimes. He struggled to keep the political independence of Texcoco during the increasing centralization of Aztec power in Tenochtitlán.
Unfortunately only one of his poems survives called 'Icuic Nezahualpilli yc tlamato huexotzinco' (song of Nezahualpilli during the war with huexotzinco)
Nezahualpilli was succeeded by his son Cacamatzin.
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