Person

Itzamnaaj Bʻalam II

King of Yaxchilan

b. 647 CE – d. 742 CE World The Far West

Itzamnaaj Bʻalam II is a Maya king who ruled in Yaxchilan from 681 until he died in the year 742.

He is also called Shield Jaguar II by modern writers and commonly referred to simply as Shield Jaguar based on his name glyph before the phonetic name was deciphered.