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Alvarado Oquiztzin.

Headword: 
Alvarado Oquiztzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name that combines a Spanish surname (Alvarado) with a Nahua name, here, the reverential rendering of Oquiztli

Attestations from sources in English: 

Don Miguel de Alvarado Oquiztzin (apparently the same don Miguel Oquiztzin who was born to don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin and the daughter of Huehue don Carlos Oquiztzin) had a son named don Juan de Tovar, a member of the church staff at the main friary of the Fransicans in Mexico. (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 102–103.

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