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Ciudad Rodrigo.

Headword: 
Ciudad Rodrigo.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname; e.g. fray Antonio de Ciudad Rodrigo; he oversaw the installation of don Hernando Velázquez a ruler in Tetzcoco

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlacatl notlatzin Don herdo cortes yxtlilxochitzin ynic quimochiuh ynic quimotlalili testamento yn ixpantzinco teopixqui padre fray antonio de ciudad Rodrigo. yn iz quimotlalilitia yn iz quimoquechilitia amattzin yn notecuiyo Don Juº quauhtliztactzin = the lord my uncle don Hernando Cortés Ixtlilxochitzin died and we had taken our leave of him, he made and set down a will in the presence of the priest, the Father fray Antonio de Cuidad Rodrigo, wherein he established and set up [as one of his heirs] your elder brother my lord don Juan Quauhtliztactzin. (central Mexico, early 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, 208–211.