Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, a Mestizo historian and descendant of Coanacoch, wrote an account of the executions in the 17th century partly based on Texcocan oral tradition.

** Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva

* 1568 – Eighty Years ' War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.

** Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Mexican historian ( d. 1648 )

A commission came in 1816 or 1817 from the family of the celebrated Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, for a painting of the Duke receiving papal honors for his repression of the Protestant Reformation.

Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, a Mexica descendant and the author of Codex Ixtlilxochitl, claimed that one in five children of the Mexica subjects was killed annually.

He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, he had an experience of an " Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere " to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

* Ixtlilxochitl, Don Fernando de Alva.

Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl notes that the Tepanec Tlatoani in New Spain slept between two braziers because he was so old he produced no natural heat.

The Spanish colonial historians Diego Durán, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, and Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc each mention Acamapichtli's maternal uncle, who occupied the throne of Culhuacan in 1324.

In the 17th century, Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, one of his descendants, defended Ixtlilxochitl and his actions in the 13th relation of the Historical Compendium of the Kingdom of Texcoco.

His account, written at the suggestion of the protomedic of Philip II of Spain, complements with the works of Bernardino de Sahagun and Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl.

He was subsequently patronized by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who often coupled his works with those of Titian ; by Philip II of Spain, who paid him royally for a copy of Jan van Eyck's Agnus Dei, and also commissioned two copies of Van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross from Coxie ; and by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, who once protected him from the insults of Spanish soldiery at Mechelen.

Despite a new era of great players coming through the ranks including international players including Brazilians Camargo, Taneses and Nilton Rodarte, Peruvian Fernando Alva, Uruguayan Julio Cesar Cortés " el Pocho ", Chileans Hugo Ottensen and domestic players including Miguel " la Mica " González, Herbert Machón, " Míchel " Cornejo, Armando Cortez Sandoval, Roberto " el Cuchillo " Guerra, Jaime " la Chelona " Rodríguez and Carlos " el Cacho " Meléndez.

Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl ( b. between 1568 and 1580, Texcoco — 1648, Mexico City ) was a Novohispanic historian.

He is described by Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl as a tyrant and: " the most cruel man who ever lived, proud, warlike and domineering.