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Oquiztzin.

Headword: 
Oquiztzin.
Principal English Translation: 

don Miguel Oquiztzin was the son of a noblewoman (said to be the daughter of Huehue don Carlos Oquiztzin, a man who ruled Azcapotzalco Mexicapan) and don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin

(central Mexico, 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, 100–101.