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600 and 700 descendants
- According to the historian, Blanca Barragán Moctezuma, a descendant of the emperor, by 2020 there are between 600 and 700 descendants of Moctezuma II in Mexico who are of legal age and in Spain around 350. Not all have noble titles.
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Several lines of descendants exist in Mexico and Spain through Moctezuma II's son and daughters, notably Tlacahuepan Ihualicahuaca, or Pedro Moctezuma, and Tecuichpoch Ixcaxochitzin, or Isabel Moctezuma.
Nov 9, 2019 · Descendants of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés met in Mexico City on Friday to mark the 500th anniversary of their ancestors’ first meeting.
Sep 7, 2022 · Axayactl was himself the grandson of Emperor MOCTEZUMA I (reigned 1440 to 1469), the monarch that he succeeded. Moctezuma II became the Emperor of the Aztec Empire in 1502 and was killed on June 29, 1520 during the fall of Tenochtitlán.
Jul 2, 2013 · Moctezuma II, the 9th Aztec Emperor, was about 19 years older than this mother of his children (there were several “wives”, naturally). She had several partners in her life. Her first possible marriage was with an Aztec nobleman named Atlixcatzin, with whom she was at least betrothed before 1519.
Amongst the descendants of the pre-Columbian rulers of present-day Mexico who received special distinctions under Spanish rule, none were more privileged than the descendants of Emperor Moctezuma II of the Mexica.
Dec 8, 2021 · Moctezuma II was one of the final rulers of the Aztec empire and its capital city Tenochtitlan. He ruled prior to its destruction around 1521 AD at the hands of the Conquistadors, their Indigenous allies, and the effect of disease spread by the European invaders.
Many books on New Spain mention the descendants of Moctezuma II, the ninth Aztec emperor, often in relation to whom they married or their encomienda holdings (grants of Indian vassals), but heretofore the story of these children of the emperor has not been told uniformly or comprehensively.
