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Don

Don (honorific)

Don, from Latin dominus, is an honorific in Spanish , Portuguese , and Italian . The female equivalent is Doña , Dona , and Donna , abbreviated "Dª" or simply "D."-Usage:...

Cristóbal de Guzmán Cecetzin (or Cecepaticatzin) was a colonial Nahua noble

Nobility

Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...

from Santa María Cuepopan in San Juan Tenochtitlan. A son of the ruler don Diego Huanitzin

Diego Huanitzin

Don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin was a 16th century Nahua noble. A grandson of Axayacatl, Nephew of tlatoani Moctezuma II. He was initially the tlatoani of Ecatepec before becoming tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, as well as its first governor under the colonial Spanish system of government.He had been...

, don Cristóbal first served as alcalde

Alcalde

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in 1556 before becoming Tenochtitlan's second-last tlatoani
Tlatoani
Tlatoani is the Nahuatl term for the ruler of an altepetl, a pre-Hispanic state. The word literally means "speaker", but may be translated into English as "king". A is a female ruler, or queen regnant....

and third governor

Governor

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in 1557, titles he held until his death in 1562.
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