Thaddeus of Nice of Santa Maria was an indigenous historian of Mexico of the sixteenth century. Biography

Born in the partiality of Tetípac, he was descended from one of the most illustrious families of Tlaxcala. By orders of the viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Pacheco, wrote in the year of 1548, the complete History of the conquest of Mexico. Lorenzo Boturini wrote in his Catalog of the Indian Historical Museum (section XXXII, number 3) that the story of Thaddeus of Nice was signed by thirty Tlaxcalan caciques who commanded auxiliary troops in the conquest of Tenochtitlán. work.

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