Doña Isabel Moctezuma (b. 1509 or 1510; d. 1550 or 1551) (born Techichipotzin) was a daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. After the Spanish conquest, Doña Isabel was recognized as Moctezuma's legitimate heir, and became one of the Mexican Indians granted an encomienda. Among the others were her half-sister Leonor (or Mariana) Moctezuma, and Juan Sánchez, an Indian governor in Oaxaca.
Read more about Isabel Moctezuma: Family and Early Marriages, Doña Isabel and The Conquest of Tenochtitlan, Conversion To Christianity and Marriage To A Spaniard, Cortés, An Unwanted Child, and Two More Marriages, Death and Inheritance, Importance, Ancestry
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