Maria Xipaguazin Moctezuma
Maria Xipaguazin Moctezuma (*? In Tenochtitlán , Mexica ; † January 10, 1537 in Toloriu , Spain ) was an Aztec princess who married a Spanish conquistador and went to Spain with him.
Life
Maria Xipaguazin Moctezuma was the daughter of Moctezuma. II was born in Tenochtitlán , the capital and seat of government of the Aztec empire Mexica .
There is insufficient evidence of your life story. According to Spanish reports, Hernán Cortés was accompanied by the Catalan Baron Joan de Grau (or Juan de Grau), who is said to have married Xipaguazin Moctezuma, brought him to Toloriu and renamed Maria. However, there is no documentary evidence of this marriage. Spanish newspaper reports even claimed that de Grau never went to Mexico with Cortes ; these reports are Catalan propaganda to highlight the role of the Catalans in the conquest of Mexico. Allegedly Maria was accompanied to Spain by her brother Pedro, who is said to have returned to Mexico after a year in the small Pyrenean mountain village.
Maria Xipaguazin is said to have had a son with Juan de Grau, who was born on May 15, 1536 and was baptized Juan Pedro de Grau y Moctezuma.
Maria Xipaguazin's death in Spain is documented, however, and the date of death is given as January 10, 1537 in Toloriu. She is said to have lived there in the "Casa Vima". Her grave is unknown. Only an inscription on a stone at the local church in Toloriu reminds of them.
In the exhibition in the British Museum "Moctezuma - Aztec Ruler" (September 24, 2009 to January 24, 2010) in London, Maria Xipaguazin is mentioned and her role as a translator in the documents that z. T. are written in Nahuatl , highlighted.
Vanished treasure
According to legend, Maria Xipaguazin brought a treasure with her to Spain, which she buried in the village of Toloriu or its surroundings. He was never found.
According to the Spanish newspaper, a German team traveled to Toloriu in the 1930s and bought Casa Vima for 3000 pesetas to look for the treasure. Receipts of these buyers or their names are missing or have been lost in the Spanish Civil War .
To this day, people in the mountain village of Toloriu are looking for the treasure of the Aztec princess Maria Xipaguazin Moctezuma.
progeny
Several hundred Spanish and Mexican descendants, who are still fighting the so-called “pension dispute” with the state of Mexico, refer to this and the descendants of her sister Tecuichpotzin Isabel Moctezuma and her brother Pedro Moctezuma . One of these pretenders is Guillermo III. de Grau-Moctezuma , who drew attention to himself in the 1960s by selling supposed titles of nobility and presiding over the Knights Templar .
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- Exhibition catalog of the British Museum : Moctezuma - Aztec Ruler, exhibition catalog , Jordi Soler: "El secreto de Moctezuma catalán", in: El Pais v. April 13, 2008, [1]
- About Toloriu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moctezuma, Maria Xipaguazin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | aztec princess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1537 |
| Place of death | Toloriu |