Tizoc
Ruler of the Mexica after his brother Axayacatl, from 1481 until about 1486.
Moctezuma Comes Out to Meet the Strangers
Bernardino de Sahagún and his Nahua informants, History of the Conquest of Mexico (Book XII of the General History of the Things of New Spain), chapters 15–16, edited by Carlos María de Bustamante (1829) · compiled from the 1550s to the 1570s (events of November 1519)
“¡O señor nuestro! seais muy bien venido, habeis llegado á vuestra tierra y á vuestro pueblo, y á vuestra casa México: habeis venido á sentaros en vuestro trono y en vuestra silla, el cual yo en vuestro nombre he poseido algunos dias. Otros señores (que ya son muertos) le tuvieron antes que yo, el uno que se llama Itzcoatl, el otro Mocthecuzoma el viejo, y el otro Axayacatl, y el otro Tizoc, y el otro Ahuitzotl. Yo el postrero de todos he venido á tener cargo y regir este vuestro pueblo de México, todos hemos traido acuestas á vuestra república, y á vuestros vasallos, los difuntos ya no pueden ver ni saber lo que ahora pasa; ¡pluguiera aquel por quien vivimos que alguno de ellos fuera vivo, y en su presencia aconteciera lo que acontece en la mia!
“O our lord, you are most welcome! You have come to your land, to your town, to your house, Mexico. You have come to sit on your throne, on your seat, which I have held for some days in your name. Other lords, who are now dead, held it before me: Itzcoatl, Mocthecuzoma the Elder, Axayacatl, Tizoc, and Ahuitzotl. I, the last of all, have come to take charge of this town of yours, Mexico, and to rule it. All of us have carried your realm and your vassals on our backs. The dead can no longer see or know what is happening now. If only he by whom we live had willed that one of them were alive, and that what is happening in my presence had happened in his!