Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc

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).[1] Tezozómoc worked as an interpreter for the Real Audiencia. Today he is known for the Crónica Mexicayotl, a Nahuatl history.[2]

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 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.

Bibliography

• León-Portilla, Miguel (1992). The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Expanded and updated ed.). Boston, MA: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807055014. OCLC 24542950.
• 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.
• Schroeder, Susan (27 July 2011). "The Truth about the Crónica Mexicayotl". Colonial Latin American Review. 20 (2): 233–247. doi:10.1080/10609164.2011.587268. ISSN 1060-9164. S2CID 162390334.