Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc
Fernando or Hernando (de) Alvarado Tezozómoc was a colonial Nahua noble. 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-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 Francisca de Moctezuma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 Ixtlilxochitl, Diego Muñoz Camargo and Domingo San Anton y Muñon Chimalpaín.
References
- ↑ León-Portilla, M. 1992, 'The Broken Spears: The Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0807055014