
By Donald E. Chipman
ISBN-10: 0292706286
ISBN-13: 9780292706286
Notwithstanding the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, 3 critical heirs of the final emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and have been later stated through the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed convinced inalienable rights as Indian royalty. for his or her half, the descendants of Moctezuma II used Spanish legislations and customs to keep up and increase their prestige through the colonial interval, reaching titles of knighthood and the Aristocracy in Mexico and Spain. So revered have been they Moctezuma descendant by way of marriage grew to become Viceroy of recent Spain (colonial Mexico's optimum governmental workplace) in 1696. This authoritative heritage follows the fortunes of the relevant heirs of Moctezuma II throughout approximately centuries. Drawing on huge examine in either Mexican and Spanish records, Donald E. Chipman exhibits how daughters Isabel and Mariana and son Pedro and their offspring used proceedings, strategic marriages, and political maneuvers and alliances to achieve pensions, rights of entailment, admission to army orders, and titles of the Aristocracy from the Spanish govt. Chipman additionally discusses how the Moctezuma relatives heritage illuminates a number of better concerns in colonial Latin American heritage, together with women's prestige and possibilities and trans-Atlantic relatives among Spain and its New global colonies. (200602)