Isabel Moctezuma

Isabel Moctezuma
Huey Siwātlahtoāni of the Aztec Empire
Tenure1520 - 1521
Huey TlatoaniCuitláhuac
Cuauhtémoc
BornTecuichpo Ichcaxochitzin
c. 1510
Diedc. 1551 (aged 41)
SpouseAtlixcatzin
Cuitláhuac
Cuauhtémoc
Alonso de Grado
Pedro Gallego de Andrade
Juan Cano de Saavedra
IssueLeonor Cortés Moctezuma (illegitimate, father: Hernán Cortés)
Juan de Andrade Gallego Moctezuma
Pedro Cano de Moctezuma
Gonzalo Cano de Moctezuma
Juan Cano de Moctezuma
Isabel Cano de Moctezuma
Catalina Cano de Moctezuma
FatherMoctezuma II
MotherTeotlalco

Doña Isabel Moctezuma (born Tecuichpoch Ichcaxochitzin; 1509/1510 – 1550/1551) was a daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. She was the consort of Atlixcatzin, a tlacateccatl,[1] and of the Aztec emperors Cuitlahuac, and Cuauhtemoc and as such the last Aztec empress. After the Spanish conquest, Doña Isabel was recognized as Moctezuma's legitimate heir, and became one of the indigenous Mexicans granted an encomienda. Among the others were her half-sister Marina (or Leonor) Moctezuma, and Juan Sánchez, an Indian governor in Oaxaca.[2]

Doña Isabel was married to one tlacateccatl, two Aztec emperors and three Spaniards, and widowed five times. She had a daughter out of wedlock whom she refused to recognize, Leonor Cortés Moctezuma, with conquistador Hernán Cortés. Her sons founded a line of Spanish nobility. The title of Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo descends from her brother, and still exists.

  1. ^ Schroeder, Susan (2010). Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico. Stanford University Press. p. 182. ISBN 9780804775069. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  2. ^ Himmerich y Valencia located only three Indians in his analysis of 506 encomenderos in the secondary literature. He was unable to determine the background of another eighty-four. Himmerich y Valencia (1991), 27; Chipman, Donald E. Moctezuma's Children Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005, p. 24