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Mizquixahualtzin.

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Mizquixahualtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a noblewoman from Tula, daughter of Aztauhyatzin; she married Axayacatzin, ruler of Tenochtitlan
(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. 1, 160–161.

Another Mizquixahualtzin was the fifth child of Tlacateotzin (ruler of Tlatelolco) and Xiuhtomiyauhtzin.
(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, 112–113.

Attestations from sources in English: 

axayacatzin tlahtohuani tenochtitlan ompa ontlacihuaan yn tullam yn cihuapilli ompa conan ye omito ytoca mizquixahualtzin = Axayacatzin, ruler of Tenochtitlan, took a wife in Tollan. The noblewoman whom he took from there, as has already been said, was named Mizquixahualtzin. (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. 1, 160–161.

mizquixaual = Mesquite face paint, a name for girls (Central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 255.