the name of one of the earliest friars, Fray Pedro de Gante, who created a school, San José de los Naturales, and taught Nahua youth (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Some indigenous men took the name de Gante. For example, we see Juan "de Gate," father of Lucía and husband of Anastacia, residents of San Martín (a barrio of Tlatelolco?) mentioned in a baptismal record from Tlatelolco from September 1586.
Several Nahua men in the area of Huexotzinco also took the name de Gante and even more were called Toribio. See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs. (SW)
frai P[edr]o de Gante yn ixquich tictequitizq'[ue] 12 mill cenxiquipilli ypa[n] matlactzontli = fray Pedro de Gante mencionó que por todo tributaríamos 12 mil [pesos]
(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Septiembre 1567 ypa[n] in mocuicamachtique teopantlaca pipilcuicatl in quimomachtique ompa teopa[n] momachtiaya yte[n]copa in totatzin frai Pe[dr]o de Gante (...) Auh in macehualcuicanime q'[ui]ntlaqualtiaya in teopa[n] tlaca ynic q'[ui]nmachtique. = Septiembre de 1567, entonces estudiaron el canto la gente de la iglesia [teopantlaca], estudiaron el pipilcuicatl; allá en el templo estudiaban por mandato de nuestro padre fray Pedro de Gante (...) Y la gente de la iglesia [teopantlaca] daba de comer en el templo a los cantores macehuales para enseñarlos. (ca. 1582, México)