Antonio Valeriano (the younger)

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

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

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.

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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