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Flores.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Flores.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish last name, but it could also be taken by indigenous people; e.g. don Antonio Flores, municipal governor of Tlaxcala in 1565

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), 166–167.

Orthographic Variants: 
Frores
Attestations from sources in English: 

gor D: Attonio frores = The governor was don Antonio Flores. (entry for 1565)
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), 166–167.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance