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Tlahuitoltzin.

Headword: 
Tlahuitoltzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; the name of a ruler of Tetzcoco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc matlactlomome tlatoanj muchiuh tetzcuco iehoatl in don Antonjo tlaujtoltzin in tlatocat chicoacexiujtl. = The twelfth who became ruler of Texcoco [was] Don Antonio Tlauitoltzin. He governed six years. (central Mexico, sixteenth cenury)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 10.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Inic xii tlatoani mochiuh yehuatl in Don Antonio Tlahuitoltzin in tlatocat chicuacexihuitl = El decimosegundo señor que se dispuso fue éste, don Antonio Tlahuitoltzin, quien gobernó seis años (centro de México, s. XVI)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 214—215.

Tlahuitoltzin (Antonio Pimentel): "El del arco", o tlahuitolli representado Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 193.

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Politics, Power, Governance