Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc
Hernando (de) Alvarado Tezozómoc was a colonial Nahua noble. He was a son of Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin (governor of Tenochtitlan) and (a daughter of Moctezuma II). Tezozómoc worked as an interpreter for the Real Audiencia. Today he is known for the Crónica Mexicayotl, a Nahuatl-language history.[1]:13
Ancestry[]
Huehue Tezozomoctli | Chimalpilli I Ruler of Ecatepec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Axayacatl Ruler of Tenochtitlan | Matlaccoatzin Ruler of Ecatepec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tezozomoctli Acolnahuacatl | Tlacuilolxochtzin | Moctezuma II Ruler of Tenochtitlan | Tlapalizquixochtzin Ruler of Ecatepec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin Ruler of Ecatepec and Tenochtitlan | Doña | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Importance[]
Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc was also a chronicler of some note, pertaining to a group of mestizo chroniclers with Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, Diego Muñoz Camargo and Chimalpahin.
Notes[]
A keeper of “The Black ink”
A learned Nahua. A noble man, descendant of the ruling class. A member of the Calmecac.
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References[]
- ^ León-Portilla, M. 1992, The Broken Spears: The Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0807055014
- Romero Galván, José Rubén (2003). Los privilegios perdidos: Hernando Alvarado Tezozómoc, su tiempo, su nobleza, y su Crónica mexicana (in Spanish). Mexico City: UNAM. ISBN 970-32-0690-5. OCLC 54477363.
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- Aztec nobility
- Aztec scholars
- Historians of Mesoamerica
- Interpreters
- Nahuatl-language writers
- Novohispanic Mesoamericanists
- 16th-century Mesoamericanists
- 16th-century historians
- 16th-century indigenous people of the Americas
- 16th-century Mexican people
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