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Although lists of many of these objects have survived, the feather headdress cannot be identified among them. Thus, the description of the headdress as a possession of Moctezuma cannot be confirmed. The headdress was first mentioned in writing in an inventory from 1596 of the collections of Ambras Castle in Innsbruck.
1892 illustration of Moctezuma II. Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin ( c. 1466 – 29 June 1520; [moteːkʷˈs̻oːmaḁ ʃoːkoˈjoːt͡sin̥] modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ ), [N.B. 1] referred to retroactively in European sources as Moctezuma II, [N.B. 2] was the ninth Emperor of the Aztec Empire (also known as the Mexica Empire ), [1] reigning from ...
May 19, 2022 · The headdress of the emperor. Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin was the de facto emperor of the Mexican empire between 1502 and 1520. Moctezuma went down in history for the maximum territorial expansion of his kingdom and for being one of the most important military figures in the history of Mexico.
Moctezuma II, the 9th emperor of the Aztecs, was known as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin . Today his name has a lot of spellings, including Montezuma and Motecuhzoma. Modern scholars sometimes call him Moctezuma II to differentiate him from the other emperor of the name, but in his time the number was not used. The name signifies frowning and kingly anger.
Oct 10, 2013 · Montezuma (aka Moctezuma), or more correctly, Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotzin, meaning 'Angry Like A Lord’, was the last fully independent ruler of the Aztec empire before the civilization 's collapse after the Spanish Conquest in the early 16th century CE. Taking the position of tlatoani, meaning 'speaker', in 1502 CE he ruled as an absolute ...
Dec 24, 2022 · Moctezuma II’s headdress was first mentioned in a European inventory in 1596, when it was acquired by Austrian Archduke Ferdinand II von Tyrol. It was listed there as “a Moorish hat.” It was likely an object sent from Mesoamerica to Europe by Hernan Cortes, but it is unknown whether it actually belonged to Moctezuma II himself.
Aug 24, 2019 · In the documentary “The History of Moctezuma’s headdress,” it is mentioned that it got to Austria in 1699 as part of a collection of the Archduke Fernando II de Tirol, and it remained 200 ...
