Chak Tok Ich'aak I, also known as Great Paw, Great Jaguar Paw, Jaguar Paw III, and Toh Chak Ich'ak, was an early Maya

Maya civilization

The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...

 king of Mutal (now known as Tikal

Tikal

Tikal is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centres of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala...

). He is one of Tikal's best known kings, with many monuments and ceramics engraved with his name.

At Tikal, one confirmed and one possible monument to Chak Tok Ich'aak have been uncovered. In Stela 39, the lower section, produced to commemorate the K'atun ending in 376 C.E., depicts the king stepping upon a bound captive. His palace, unusually, was never built over by later rulers, and was kept in repair for centuries as an apparent revered monument. Stela 31 from Tikal records that he died on the same day that Siyah K'ak'

Siyah K'ak'

Siyaj K'ak' was a prominent political figure mentioned in the glyphs of Classic Period Maya civilization monuments, principally Tikal and Uaxactun...

 captured Tikal, probably killed by the Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan – also written Teotihuacán, with a Spanish orthographic accent on the last syllable – is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, just 30 miles northeast of Mexico City, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas...

o conquerors.