Antonio Valeriano (the younger)
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Don Antonio Valeriano, the younger was a colonial Mexican Nahua politician.
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[edit] Family
Don Antonio Valeriano was born to don Diego Valeriano and doña María. His paternal grandfather and namesake, Antonio Valeriano the elder, was a prominent member of society in Tenochtitlan and Azcapotzalco, serving as governor in both places, as Antonio Valeriano the younger later would. His paternal grandmother was doña Isabel, a daughter of don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin, ruler of Tenochtitlan. His mother's father was don Alonso Tezozomoctzin, ruler of Azcapotzalco Mexicapan.[1]
On October 10, 1610 he married doña Bárbara, his niece. They had a son named Nicolás.[2]
[edit] Career
He served as alcalde for San Juan Moyotlan in the cabildo of San Juan Tenochtitlan from 1608 to 1610.[3] He was a fiscal in 1611 before becoming governor of Azcapotzalco on November 17 that year.[4] Later in the 1620s he was governor of Tenochtitlan.[5]
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- Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). Codex Chimalpahin, edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press. OCLC 36017075.
- Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (2006). Annals of His Time: Don Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitin, edited and translated by James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-5454-3. OCLC 61821734.
- Gibson, Charles [1964] (1983). The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0912-2. OCLC 9359010.
