From Mazahua to Nobles: The Case of the Villegas Chimal Family in the North of the Valley of Toluca, in the 16th-18th Centuries
Abstract
This article addresses how a Mazahua Indian by the name of Francisco de Villegas was able to adapt to the colonial system by allying himself with his encomendero namesake in order to obtain remarkable power based on economic resources throughout the Valley of Toluca. Since then, the Villegas Chimal family became the new Mazahua nobility and each of its descendants sustained wealth and political influence in two Indian towns during three centuries: Atlacomulco and San Miguel Temascalcingo.
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