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.