B'alaj Chan K'awiil

Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil (15 October 625 – ??) was a Maya king of Dos Pilas. He is also known as Ruler 1, Flint Sky God K and Malah Chan Kʼawil.

Early years He was born in Tikal on 15 October 625 A.D. His father was K'inich Muwaan Jol II, who was either the 23rd or 24th king of the Tikal dynasty; Nuun Ujol Chaak, future king of Tikal, was either his brother or half-brother. At the age of 6, he carried out a pre-accession ritual. At the age of 9 or 10, he carried out another pre-accession ritual where a royal insignia was imposed that consisted of a wide ribbon on the forehead knotted behind, occurred in Tikal. During his childhood years an event of escape or exile is unclearly narrated, but years later he returned to Tikal; other authors suggest that it is another pre-accession event. Another daughter (or perhaps a sister) married into the royal lineage of Arroyo de Piedra.

With the Lady of Itzan, Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil was a father of Itzamnaaj Bʼalam and Itzamnaaj Kʼawiil and he was a grandfather to a king of Naranjo, Kʼakʼ Tiliw Chan Chaak, with Lady Bulu’

In art Dos Pilas Stela 9, dated to AD 682, bears the only known portrait of this king.