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Cortés de Motecuhzoma.

Headword: 
Cortés de Motecuhzoma.
Principal English Translation: 

doña María Cortés de Moteuczoma, mestiza, was a daughter of don Hernando Cortés and doña Isabel de Moteuczoma Tecuichpochtzin (and therefore the granddaughter of Motecuzoma Xocoyotl); doña María was also given by Cortés to be the wife of a Spaniard, Juan de Tolosa, a miner in Zacatlan (all according to don Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoctzin, and recounted by Chimalpahin); such a genealogy links pre-contact with Spanish colonial times (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 86–87.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cortés de Moteuczoma, Cortés de Moctezuma