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For other people with the: same name, see Tezozomoc (disambiguation).

Hernando (de) Alvarado Tezozómoc was a colonial Nahua noble. He was a son of Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin (governor of Tenochtitlan) and Francisca de Moctezuma (a daughter of Moctezuma II). Tezozómoc worked as an interpreter for the Real Audiencia. Today he is known for the Crónica Mexicayotl, a Nahuatl history.

Ancestry

Huehue TezozomoctliChimalpilli I
Ruler of Ecatepec
Axayacatl
Ruler of Tenochtitlan
Matlaccoatzin
Ruler of Ecatepec
Tezozomoctli AcolnahuacatlTlacuilolxochtzinMoctezuma II
Ruler of Tenochtitlan
Tlapalizquixochtzin
Ruler of Ecatepec
Don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin
Ruler of Ecatepec and Tenochtitlan
Doña Francisca de Moctezuma
Don Hernando de Alvarado
Tezozomoc

Importance

Fernando de Alvarado Tezozómoc was also a very important chronicler, 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.

References

  1. ^ Schroeder 2011, p. 235.
  2. ^ León-Portilla 1992, p. 13.

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