title for a colonial official, the highest magistrate of a district, often equivalent to "alcalde mayor" The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.
an elite indigenous family name, partly taken from the Spanish expedition leader Hernando Cortés; e.g. don Antonio Cortés Totoquihuaztli the younger, who ruled in Tlacopan (Tacuba); he was a member of the ruling dynasty there; he died in 1614, possibly of matlaltotonqui; he left behind two small daughters
(central Mexico, 1614) see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 284–285.
He married doña Juana de Alvarado. Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Crónica mexicana (Mexico City: UNAM, 1994), xviii.
Don Antonio Cortés Totoquihuaztli of Tlacopan apparently wrote to Charles V in 1552 to request (and received) a coat of arms for his family and one for his town. María Castañeda de la Paz and Miguel Luque-Talaván, "Privileges of the 'Others': The Coats of Arms Granted to Indigenous Conquistadors," in Simon McKeown, ed., The International Emblem (2010), 294–296.