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a Spanish surname taken by various indigenous nobles (see attestations)
Nahuatl don Baleriano Castañeda gobernador yn nican altepetl Tlaxcallan. = Yo don Baleriano Castañeda gobernador aqui en la ciudad de Tlaxcala. [Parece haber escrito un documento en náhuatl dirigido a su alguacil, Feliciano Tizamitl. Lo firma y da la fecha de 1543. Posiblemente fue un estudiante en al convento Franciscano de Tlaxcala, donde aprendió escribir en náhuatl.] (Tlaxcala, 1543)
Doña Luisa de la Cerda married don Pedro de Castañeda, both being residents of Tlalmanalco, and they had a son named don Diego de Castañeda. (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Don Alonso de Castañeda was the Nahua noble from Cuauhtinchan, near Cholula, who commissioned the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, perhaps around 1546.