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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
The Cortesian documents are a compilation by José Luis Martínez of handwritten historical texts related to Hernán Cortés.The documents are divided into three parts: ...
4th Count of La Coruña: 4 October 1580 19 June 1583 6 Pedro de Moya y Contrerás (Archbishop of Mexico) 25 September 1584 17 October 1585 7 Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga 1st Marquess of Villamanrique: 17 October 1585 27 January 1590 8 Luís de Velasco Marquess of Salinas: 27 January 1590 5 November 1595 9 Gaspar de Zúñiga Acevedo y Fonseca,
According to his letters of relationship, [2] Cortés affirms that he made this decision as a preventive action before a possible ambush by 20,000 Mexica soldiers. [3] However, the accounts collected by Bernardino de Sahagún [ 4 ] contradict this version since it is narrated that only unarmed Cholultec civilians were killed.
Name Reign Succession and notes Life details Tlacotzin Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin: 1525 [24] / 1525–1526 [26] (less than a year) Appointed by Hernan Cortés. Previously served as cihuacoatl (a senior political office). Appears to have worked alongside the Spaniards for some time since he enjoyed a privileged position before his appointment. [27]
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These letters were translated into French by Désiré Charnay in his work Lettres de Fernand Cortès à Charles-Quint sur la découverte et la conquête du Mexique (1896). [ 2 ] Another significant source is the chronicle by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496-1584), titled Historia verdadera de la conquista de la nueva España .
Pedro de Hircia, one of the soldiers, was the one who wrote the letter and sent it. [9]: 199 Once they received the letter, the Tlaxcalans sent a pair of spies to give the letter to Cortés while in Tenochtitlan. Cortés received this letter on the morning of 14 November; therefore he told Moctezuma about the incident, and consequently was ...