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Antonio Valeriano, the younger was a colonial Mexican

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Family

Don Antonio Valeriano was born to don Diego Valeriano and doña María. His paternal grandfather and

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, Antonio Valeriano the elder, was a prominent member of society in Tenochtitlan and Azcapotzalco, serving as governor in both places, as Antonio Valeriano the younger later would. His paternal grandmother was doña Isabel, a daughter of don

Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin Don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin (or Panitzin) was a 16th-century Nahua noble. A grandson of Axayacatl, Nephew of tlatoani Moctezuma II. He was initially the ''tlatoani'' (ruler) of Ecatepec before becoming ''tlatoani'' of Tenochtitlan, as well a ...

, ruler of

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. His mother's father was don Alonso Tezozomoctzin, ruler of Azcapotzalco Mexicapan. On October 10, 1610, he married doña Bárbara, his niece. They had a son named Nicolás.

Career

He served as

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for San Juan Moyotlan in the cabildo of San Juan Tenochtitlan from 1608 to 1610. He was a

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in 1611 before becoming governor of Azcapotzalco on November 17 that year. Later in the 1620s he was governor of Tenochtitlan.Gibson

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p. 170.

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