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Claudionor Viana Teles Veloso, better known as Dona Canô (1907—2012), was the mother of two popular Brazilian musicians, Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethânia. She also inspired a famous song performed by Daniela Mercury, called "Dona Canô".
Claudionor Viana Teles Veloso (Santo Amaro, 16 de setembro de 1907 [1] [2] — Santo Amaro, 25 de dezembro de 2012), [3] mais conhecida como Dona Canô, foi uma cidadã centenária brasileira, conhecida por ser mãe de dois importantes nomes da música popular brasileira: Caetano Veloso e Maria Bethânia.
- Family and Early Marriages
- Doña Isabel and The Conquest of Tenochtitlan
- Conversion to Christianity and Dynastic Union to Spain
- Regarding Slavery
- Cortés, A Child, and Two More Marriages
- Death and Inheritance
- Modern-Day Descendants
Doña Isabel's mother was Princess Teotlalco and her birth name was Tecuich(po)tzin, translated as "lord's daughter" in Nahuatl. Teotlalco was Moctezuma's principal wife and, thus, among Moctezuma's daughters Tecuichpotzin had primacy. As a small child, Tecuichpotzin was married to Atlixcatzin, who died by 1520. After her father was killed, either b...
Hernán Cortés and other Spaniards entered Tenochtitlan on November 8, 1519. For several months they lived in Moctezuma's palace. At some time during their sojourn there they took the emperor hostage. The Aztecs revolted and expelled Cortés and his army from Tenochtitlan (La Noche Triste, June 30, 1520). However, Tecuichpotzin was left behind in the...
Cortés valued Tecuichpotzin as a symbol of what he wished to portray as the continuity of rule between the Aztecs and the Spanish. She was instructed in Christianity, converted to Catholicism, probably in 1526, and baptized as Isabel, the name by which she would thereafter be known. Every indication is that Doña Isabel, the former Aztec princess Te...
Her opposition to slavery has become a subject of interest lately. Isabel herself was a prominent slave owner, as was traditional in her lineage, but she freed all her slaves by the end of her life. In July 1526 Cortés gave Alonso de Grado, Isabel's husband, the position of "Visitador Real" – a traveling auditor with authority to exert judicial and...
Doña Isabel was described as “very beautiful” and “a very pretty woman for an Indian.” Her fourth husband, Alonso de Grado, soon died and Isabel, about seventeen years old, was widowed for a fourth time. Cortés took her into his household and she soon became pregnant. He quickly married her to another associate, Pedro Gallego de Andrade, and the ch...
Doña Isabel died in 1550 or 1551. Her estate was large, consisting not only of the encomienda, but also personal possessions she had acquired during her marriages with the Spaniards. Previous to those marriages, she had been an Aztec princess who owned nothing except her distinguished name. Her will is one of the few existing indicators of her pers...
The Miravalle line of Spanish nobility began with Isabel's son, Juan de Andrade. Her sons, Pedro and Gonzalo Cano, became prominent citizens of Mexico City. Her son, Juan Cano Moctezuma, married into a prominent family in Cáceres, Spain, where the Palacio de Toledo-Moctezuma still exists.Isabel's last husband, Juan Cano, died in Seville in 1572.The...
Veloso was one of seven children born into the family of José Telles Veloso (commonly known as Seu Zeca), a government official, and Claudionor Viana Telles Veloso (known as Dona Canô).
Claudionor Viana Teles Velloso (Santo Amaro, 16 de septiembre de 1907 - 25 de diciembre de 2012), [1] más conocida cono como Dona Canô, fue una matriarca centenaria de Bahia, madre de los músicos Caetano Veloso y Maria Bethânia.
Claudionor Viana Teles Veloso (Santo Amaro, 16 de setembro de 1907 — Santo Amaro, 25 de dezembro de 2012), mais conhecida como Dona Canô, foi uma cidadã centenária brasileira, conhecida por ser mãe de dois importantes nomes da música popular brasileira: Caetano Veloso e Maria Bethânia.
Dec 25, 2012 · Dona Cano morreu em 25 de dezembro de 2012, após implicações de um ataque isquêmico cerebral. Ficou internada por seis dias (entre os dias 15 e 21 de dezembro) e pediu para passar o Natal em casa.
