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 and coupled with the personal conflict Netzahualcoyotl had with the Tepaneca King. Years before, Maxtla had killed father, Ixtlilxóchitl, right before his own eyes. Netzahualcoyotl had to go to Mexico-Tenochtitlan to ask his uncle Itzcóatl, political relief since Maxtla pursued him consistently. For many years, Netzahualcoyotl took shelter from the Aztec nobility. Subsequently, Netzahualcoyotl recovered Texcoco from Azcapotzalco. When Itzcóatl makes war against Azcapotzalco, requests Netzahualcoyotl Alliance, recalling the days that the Aztec Kingdom had given him shelter. Thus, Tlacopan, which was a basically Aztec people, formed a triple alliance, whose armies were led personally by Itzcóatl in the battle against the tepanec. 15 days after the start of the battle, Maxtla was defeated by the Triple Alliance, and at the beginning of the 1428 concluded the Tepaneca domain of the Anahuac Valley, and Azcapotzalco burned and sacked and become a slave market.

At that time the Triple Alliance was formed with Texcoco and Tlacopan as independent altépetl and Tenochtitlan maintained military command.

The sixth Tlatoani was Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, his first name, pronounced [moteːkʷˈsoːma] in Classical Nahuatl, means "he who frowns like a lord". It is also written Montezuma, Motecuhzoma, and several other spellings. Ilhuicamina, pronounced [ilwikaˈmiːna], means "he shoots a bolt into the sky". In Aztec writing, he can be indicated by either a diadem representing or an arrow piercing a stylized representation of the sky. Ruled from 1440 to 1469.

As the son of Emperor Huitzilihuitl II, he assumed in 1417command of the army, which would continue during the reigns of his half-brother Chimalpopoca (1417-1427) and his uncle Itzcóatl (1427-1440). On the death of the latter, Moctezuma Ilhuicamina was elected sovereign of the mexica state under which began an expansionist era, with the help of their traditional allies, the small Lordships of Texcoco and Tlacopan. After having defeated Cuauhtlatoa, king of Tlatelolco, who tried to take the government, subdue Atonal, lord of Coixtlahuaca in 1461, and destroy the cities of Chalco and Tepeaca,