Nezahualcoyotl

Nezahualcoyotl Acolmiztli, whose name means Fasting Coyote, was tlatoani, or king, of the Acolhua city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian Mexico from 1431 until his death in 1472, born in 1402, remembered as a philosopher, warrior, architect, legislator and poet who earned the nickname the Poet-King. After his father was assassinated during a war with the Tepanec Empire, he spent years in exile evading assassination before helping defeat the Tepanecs by forming an alliance with the rulers of Tenochtitlan and Tlacopan that became the Aztec Triple Alliance, commonly known as the Aztec Empire. Verses attributed to him under his poetic name Yoyontzin form part of the surviving corpus of pre-Columbian Nahuatl poetry, though few sources survive from his own lifetime to verify authorship with certainty.