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Author Chipman, Donald E., author.

Title Moctezuma's children : Aztec royalty under Spanish rule, 1520-1700 / Donald E. Chipman
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 200 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- The Aztecs and Moctezuma II, to 1519 -- The survival and accommodation of Isabel Moctezuma, 1519-1532 -- Isabel Moctezuma -- The patrimony of Mariana and Pedro Moctezuma -- Isabel Moctezuma's descendants and the Northern frontier of New Spain -- The peerage and the viceroyalty of New Spain -- Conclusions
Summary Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors asreyes naturales(natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty. For their part, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish law and customs to maintain and enhance their status throughout the colonial period, achieving titles of knighthood and nobility in Mexico and Spain. So respected were they that a Moctezuma descendant by marriage became Viceroy of New Spain (colonial Mexico's highest governmental office) in 1696. This authoritative history follows the fortunes of the principal heirs of Moctezuma II across nearly two centuries. Drawing on extensive research in both Mexican and Spanish archives, Donald E. Chipman shows how daughters Isabel and Mariana and son Pedro and their offspring used lawsuits, strategic marriages, and political maneuvers and alliances to gain pensions, rights of entailment, admission to military orders, and titles of nobility from the Spanish government. Chipman also discusses how the Moctezuma family history illuminates several larger issues in colonial Latin American history, including women's status and opportunities and trans-Atlantic relations between Spain and its New World colonies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index
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Subject Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520 -- Genealogy
Moctezuma, Isabel, 1509-1550 -- Genealogy
SUBJECT Moctezuma, Isabel, 1509-1550 fast
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520 fast
Moctezuma II, Emperador de México -- Genealogía embne
Moctezuma, Isabel de -- Genealogía. embne
Motecuhzoma II, keizer van Mexico, ca 1466-1520. (NL-LeOCL)073220345 nta
Moctezuma, Isabel, ca1509-1550. (NL-LeOCL)290859123 nta
Moctezuma, Mariana. (NL-LeOCL)298542455 nta
Moctezuma, Pedro, ca1503-1570. (NL-LeOCL)298542544 nta
Moctezuma (2) rero
Subject Aztecs -- Kings and rulers -- Genealogy
Families of royal descent -- Mexico
REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Aztecs -- Kings and rulers
Families of royal descent
15.85 history of America.
Aztecs.
Aztecs.
Royal houses.
Genealogies.
Aztèque (peuple) -- Mexique -- conquête -- 16e s. -- 17e s.
Mexico
México -- Historia -- 1521-1821 (Época colonial)
Mexico -- Nobility -- Genealogy.
Mexico.
Genre/Form Genealogy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0292796951
9780292796959
Other Titles Aztec royalty under Spanish rule, 1520-1700