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Muñoz Camargo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Muñoz Camargo.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish name, but also carried by others; e.g. don Diego Muñoz Camargo (1529–1599), the author of a History of Tlaxcala; his father was a Spaniard who served with Hernando Cortés (the expedition leader against the Aztecs) and his mother was Nahua (of Tlaxcala); he served as municipal governor of Tlaxcala during some years; his son, of the same name, was municipal governor of Tlaxcala (1608–1613); the son married doña Francisca Maxixcatzin, heiress to the rulership of Ocotelolco

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 173–174.

Orthographic Variants: 
Monos Camarco, Monos Gamarco
Attestations from sources in English: 

1612. 3 decpaxivitli gor. D. Diego monos camarco = 1612. 3 Flint-knife year. The governor was don Diego Muñoz Camargo.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 174–175.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance