Free download or read online Montezumas Daughter pdf (ePUB) book. Eventually, Thomas unwillingly joins a Spanish expedition to New Spain, and the novel tells a fictionalized story of the first interactions between the natives and European explorers. In 1532 she married her sixth husband, Juan Cano de Saavedra, by whom she had three sons and two daughters: Pedro, Gonzalo, Juan, Isabel, and Catalina Cano de Moctezuma. Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery. http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/publica/librev/rev/hisder/cont/10/cnt/cnt35.pdf, http://www.famsi.org/reports/06045/06045Kalyuta01.pdf, http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=1458325, http://www.revistadelauniversidad.unam.mx/ojs_rum/files/journals/1/articles/14010/public/14010-19408-1-PB.pdf, https://matadornetwork.com/es/isabel-tecuichpo-la-verdadera-madre-de-la-patria-en-mexico/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isabel_Moctezuma&oldid=1003443204, 16th-century indigenous people of the Americas, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 January 2021, at 00:45. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. Carrillo de Albornoz, J. She seems to have been more than a mere pawn in the hands of Aztec royalty and Spanish conquerors. [2] Haggard later wrote that Montezuma's Daughter was the last of his best work "for the rest was repetition so far as fiction was concerned". [19] The claims to nobility of the count of Miravalle, the count of La Enrejada, the duke of Ahumada, the duke of Abrantes, and the duke of Monctezuma come directly from her and her sister. Montezuma's Daughter is an action & adventure novel by English author H. Rider Haggard. [15], Doña Isabel died in 1550 or 1551. Both daughters were well-educated, as presumably were her sons. As a deathbed wish, 20 percent of her estate was to be given to Leonor, her out-of-wedlock child by Cortés. Cortés took her into his household and she soon became pregnant. She was the consort of the Aztec emperors Atlixcatzin, Cuitláhuac, and Cuauhtémoc and as such the last Aztec empress. Hernán Cortés and other Spaniards entered Tenochtitlan on November 8, 1519. As a lover of classic literature and an enthusiast of Mexican and ancient American history, I’m always on the lookout for a good, vintage novel dealing with the Aztecs, the Maya, or the Inca. In July of 1526 Cortés gave Alonso de Grado, Isabel's husband, the position of "Visitador Real" – a traveling auditor with authority to exert judicial and executive power in the name of the crown – of New Spain. However, Tecuichpotzin was left behind in the city by the Spanish. [3] Like many Victorian adventure novels, this one sometimes treats the natives as naïve and barbaric, but this is a flaw Haggard explicitly points out in his main character. “Los Herederos de Moctezuma.”, Sagaón Infante, “Testamento de Isabel Moctezuma”, en Anuario Mexicano de Historia del Derecho, 10, Sagaon Infante, Raquel, “Testamento de Isabel Moctezuma.”, Chipman (2005), 68; Sagaon Infante, Raquel, “Testamento de Isabel Moctezuma.”. As a small child, Tecuichpotzin was married to Atlixcatzin, who died by 1520. [9] Despite the growing body of law trying to limit or extinguish native slavery in New Spain that her husband was charged with enforcing, she, as native nobility, had the special privilege of retaining the slaves she owned prior to the conquest and treat them "in her traditional ways”. info)), variant spellings include Motecuhzomatzin, Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma, Motēuczōmah, Muteczuma, and referred to retroactively in European sources as Moctezuma II, was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of the Aztec Empire, reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520. Montezuma's daughter. Very little is known about Doña Isabel beyond a few facts of her life. She was instructed in Christianity, converted to Catholicism, probably in 1526, and baptized as Isabel, the name by which she would thereafter be known. 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