The Cano-Moctezuma branch arrived in Granada and holds the title of the Count of Miravalle. "There's no point in demanding that the king apologize for something that happened five centuries ago," he said. The current holder, Juan Jose Marcilla de Teruel-Moctezuma, criticizes Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador's demand for Spain to apologize for the events of the conquest. In 1627, a great-grandson living in Spain was granted the hereditary title of count, which was later elevated to the duke. Moctezuma's lineage in Spain came through Pedro - his son with a concubine - who was taken to Europe as a child, probably to prevent an uprising, according to historians. "The conquistadors say that the Mexica (Aztecs) killed him, but religious and indigenous chroniclers say it was the Spanish," he said. "That was an invention," said Pablo Moctezuma, who has also found contradictions in accounts of the emperor's death in July 1520. Moctezuma is seen by some as a superstitious man who capitulated by confusing Cortes with the god Quetzalcoatl. Most of her seven children came from her fourth and fifth marriages which produced the Andrada-Moctezuma and Cano-Moctezuma lineages.ĭespite the Aztec blood running through his veins, Pablo Moctezuma, a historian and brother of the ambassador in Washington, was once embarrassed by his roots. She also had a daughter out of wedlock with conquistador Hernan Cortes, whom her descendants and historians accuse of raping her. Isabel was married five times - twice to Moctezuma's relatives and successors and three times to Spaniards. Some scholars believe that it was more about quelling a rebellion. "Moctezuma had many children, but Tecuichpo Ichcaxochitl was the only legitimate one," Blanca Barragan Moctezuma said, calling Isabel by her Aztec name, meaning "daughter of the ruler" and "white flower." So why was Isabel, who died in 1550, given such privileges? "According to chroniclers, it contained more than 300 towns," said Gonzalez Acosta. The payment "was compensation for the right to use the lands belonging to Isabel's descendants," said Alejandro Gonzalez Acosta, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.Īfter the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan on August 13, 1521, Spain granted Isabel perpetual ownership of territory consisting of the city of Tacuba. Some descendants sued to try to have the pension reinstated, but without success. It was post-revolutionary Mexico," said Blanca's husband Jesus Juarez. The payment to Moctezuma II's descendants through his daughter Isabel was worth an estimated $60,000-$90,000 a year in today's money - until it was scrapped in 1934. And until decades ago, some were even paid a "Moctezuma pension."Īt her home in Mexico City, Blanca Barragan Moctezuma displays centuries-old documents showing the money that her family used to regularly receive.
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