Ruler 5

Reign: Uncertain

Preceded by: K’altuun Hix

Succeeded by: Ruler 6

Structures:

• Unknown

Not much is known about Ruler 5 - information between 437 and 524 - Popol Hol’s reign and the start of Bahlam Nehn’s - is limited at best.

This king may have been mentioned on Quirigua Monument 26. The 480 CE monument mentions an event supervised an ochk’in kaloomte, which at Quirigua in this time referred to a Copan king (Martin and Grube 2008, 217). If Ruler 5 ruled during this time, he may very well be that king.

Sources:

• Martin, Simon and Nikolai Grube. 2008. Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Dynasties of the Ancient Maya. London: Thames and Hudson