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His Nahuatl name, pronounced, is sometimes spelled Xicohtencatl. In 1519 he was baptized as Lorenzo Xicotencatl or Don Lorenzo de Vargas. At the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico he was very old and of poor health.
He was instrumental in aligning the Tlaxcala with Cortes" Spaniards.
Tlaxcalan historian Diego Muñoz Camargo wrote of him that he was more than 120 years old and that he could only see Cortés if he had someone lift his eyelids for him.
