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 Francisca de Moctezuma (a daughter of Moctezuma II). Tezozómoc worked as an interpreter for the Real Audiencia.
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Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc
- Born
- 1600 · Mexico City.
- Died
- 1606
- Nationality
- Aztec · Mexico · New Spain
- Occupation
- writer · historian · chronicler
- Languages
- Spanish · Nahuatl
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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.
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He was also a very important chronicler, pertaining to a group of mestizo chroniclers with Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, Diego Muñoz Camargo and Chimalpahin. Today he is known for the Crónica Mexicayotl, a Nahuatl history.
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1600
Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc was born on 1 January 1600.
1606
Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc died on 1 January 1606.
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- León-Portilla, Miguel. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press. 1992. 9780807055014.
- Romero Galván, José Rubén. Los privilegios perdidos: Hernando Alvarado Tezozómoc, su tiempo, su nobleza, y su Crónica mexicana. UNAM. 2003. 970-32-0690-5.
- Schroeder, Susan. The Truth about the Crónica Mexicayotl. Colonial Latin American Review. 20. 2. 233–247. 27 July 2011. 1060-9164.
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Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc. His recorded languages were Spanish and Nahuatl.
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