Antonio Valeriano (the younger)

Don Antonio Valeriano, the younger was a colonial Mexican Nahua politician.

This article is about Antonio Valeriano the younger. For his grandfather, see Antonio Valeriano.

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]

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]

Notes
  1. Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 1,p. 173.
  2. Chimalpahin (1997): vol. 2, p. 103; Chimalpahin (2006): p. 167.
  3. Chimalpahin (2006): pp. 107, 155, 163.
  4. Chimalpahin (2006): pp. 173, 193.
  5. Gibson [1964]: p. 170.
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References
Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997). Codex Chimalpahin. edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder. Norman: 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 (1983) [1964]. 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.
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