ABSTRACT
Don Pedro Tetlahuehuetzquitzin had given his unpopular nephew Don Carlos the estate in order to raise Don Carlos’s social status while he groomed him for power. But Don Carlos was tlatoani of Texcoco for only a few months when the Inquisition tried and convicted him. During the Inquisition’s proceedings against Don Carlos Chichimecatecotl, Lord of Texcoco, in 1539, the court seized the accused idolater’s property, including his estate of Oztoticpac. The largest single section of land pictured on the top right of the quadrant is Don Carlos’s privately owned estate; it appears that leaders in the Pre-Conquest times owned private property. The holders of calpollali had land allotments that were roughly twice the size of the renters’ plots, and the private land of Don Carlos’s family was thirty to forty times larger than the calpollali. Some of the commoners’ lands within Carlos’s estate spill across the tree-designated boundary, which has led researchers to conclude that these, were properties under dispute.
