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Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I (Mayan pronunciation: [kʼihniʧ χanaːɓ pakal]), also known as Pacal or Pacal the Great (March 24, 603 – August 29, 683), [N 1] was ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque in the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology. He acceded to the throne in July 615 and ruled until his death.
Janahb Pakal also known as Janaab Pakal, Pakal I or Pakal the Elder, (died 6 March 612), was a nobleman and possible ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque. [ 2 ] Biography
Yohl Ikʼnal was a grandmother or great-grandmother of Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, Palenque's greatest king. [2] She was a descendant of Kʼukʼ Bahlam I, the founder of the Palenque dynasty and she came to power within a year of the death of her predecessor, Kan Bahlam I. [3] Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, grandson or great-grandson of Yohl Ikʼnal
The structure was specifically built as the funerary monument for Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal, [2] ajaw or ruler of Palenque in the 7th century, whose reign over the polity lasted almost 70 years. Construction of this monument commenced in the last decade of his life, and was completed by his son and successor Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II. [3]
Kʼinich Janaab Pakal II, [N 1] also known as Upakal Kʼinich, (fl. c.742), was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He ruled c.742 and he was probably brother of Kʼinich Ahkal Moʼ Nahb III . [ 1 ]
Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II [N 1] (Mayan pronunciation: [kʼihniʧ kan ɓahlam]), also known as Chan Bahlum II, (May 23, 635 – February 20, 702) was ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque, in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Janaab Pakal III, [N 1] also known as 6 Cimi Pakal, (fl. c.799), was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He acceded to the throne in November, 799. He acceded to the throne in November, 799. [ N 2 ] [ 1 ] He was probably last ruler of Palenque and his glyph name comes from blackware vase found in the residential quarter of city.
Beside the attention that Kʼinich Janaab' Pakal's tomb brought to Palenque, the city is historically significant for its extensive hieroglyphic corpus composed during the reigns of Janaabʼ Pakal, his son Kʼinich Kan Bahlam II, and his grandson Kʼinich Akal Moʼ Naabʼ, and for being the location where Heinrich Berlin [6] and later Linda ...