Moctezuma (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Duques de Moctezuma de Tultengo

Moctezuma (verballhorn also Montezuma ) is the name of a Spanish noble family of Aztec origin. The sex counted among the high nobility continues to this day.

Moctezuma II , the progenitor of the family

history

The lineage of the Aztec ruling dynasty begins with Opocxtli Ixtachuatzin , whose son Acamapichtli was elected Tlatoani in 1376 . His descendant was Moctezuma Xocoyotzin († 1520), the 9th Tlatoani of the Aztecs, third from last independent ruler of ancient Mexico . The Aztec monarch, captured by the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés and killed in an uprising of his subjects, had left a son Yahualicahuatzin , Princess Miahuaxochitl , who was baptized Pedro and brought to Spain. His grandson Pedro Moctezuma Thesifon de la Cueva was appointed the Spanish Conde de Motēuczūma in 1627 by King Philip IV of Spain , inherited in Primogenitur . The name was soon simplified to Moctezuma .

1766 got the family of Charles III. the Spanish grandeur, 1st class.

In the 1820s there was concern that the family still as a pretender to the Mexican throne feel (the first 1,821 newly First Mexican Empire under the Spanish-born Agustín de Iturbide had existed only until 1823): the former winner of the title Count of Moctezuma had since 1821 in Paris the Bourbon kings Louis XVIII. and Karl X. lived. Supported by the French ultra-royalist movement, he came to Le Havre in October 1826 to board the French frigate Pallas for the Mexican port of Veracruz . By the way, a congress decree had already cashed in on August 11, 1826, under Ferdinand VII , his Spanish title of count .

Don Antonio Moctezuma y Marcilla de Teruel, Marqués de Tenebrón 23 Conde de Moctezuma († 1890), was awarded in 1865 by the Spanish Queen Isabella II. The title of duke Duque de Moctezuma de Tultengo awarded primogeniture inherited. With the upgrading of the aristocratic title, the Moctezuma housewas to be offereda kind of compensation for the fact that no descendant of Moctezuma II, the old ruling dynasty, had ascended the throne of the Mexican Empire in the previous year. Rather, Maximilian I from the House of Habsburg came into play, which at the time of the conquest of the Aztec Empire with Charles V / I. had provided the King of Spain.

Don Juan José Marcilla de Teruel-Moctezuma y Valcárcel (* 1958) has been the 6th Duke of Moctezuma since 2014 and thus the head of the house.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berthold Riese , Das Reich der Azteken: Geschichte und Kultur , Munich 2011, p. 357
  2. ↑ a b c Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon , Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1998, p. 108
  3. ↑ Berthold Riese, Das Reich der Azteken: Geschichte und Kultur , Munich 2011, pp. 160 and 252
  4. ^ Carl Nicolaus Röding (ed.), Columbus: Amerikanische Miscellen , Volume 2, Hamburg 1826, p. 498 f.
  5. ↑ Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y López, Títulos nobiliarios con Grandeza de España concedidos en Indias , Madrid 1984, p. 33
  6. ↑ a b The Heirs of Europe: Moctezuma (accessed on May 25, 2015)