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WHO'S WHO IN THE CLASSIC MAYA WORLD
Peter Mathews |
| | U Pakal K'inich Janab' Pakal II An eighth-century king of Palenque (ruled ca. AD 740-750) | PAL 015 |
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Genealogy
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| Because we have relatively little information about U Pakal K'inich Janab' Pakal II, there are various possibilities for his placement within the royal genealogy of Palenque. Simon Martin and Mary Miller (2004:200) consider that U Pakal K'inich Janab' Pakal II was the younger brother of K'inich Akul Mo' Nab' III. This is certainly plausible, and it has the added advantage that U Pakal K'inich Janab' Pakal II would then have been the grandson of K'inich Janab' Pakal I (the sharing of names between alternate generations—grandfathers and their grandsons—was a common pattern among the Classic Maya). Nevertheless, I favour the scheme offered below, in which U Pakal K'inich Janab' Pakal II was the oldest son of K'inich Akul Mo' Nab' III and his wife Ix "Men Nich". My main reason for doing this is that we know that K'inich Akul Mo' Nab' III had at least one son (and probably at least two): K'inich K'uk' B'alam II (and probably K'inich Kan B'alam III). Both these men were in full adulthood when their father died, and so we could question why, after the death of K'inich Akul Mo' Nab', would his younger brother have succeeded him, with the royal line then moving back to the patriline of the older brother. This seems to me an unusual succession, and less likely than the scheme below. |
