According to Díaz del Castillo, the informed town threw stones and spears towards Moctezuma who was injured by three stones, in the head, arm and leg. Moctezuma would die shortly after in the Spanish's rooms because of the head injury.
What happened to Moctezuma's offspring?
At the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, Moctezuma Xocoyotzin had conceived about 19 children, however, after the fall of Tenochtitlan only 4 survived. According to Mundo Alejandro González Acosta researcher at the UAM in an interview for the BBC, there are currently about 300 descendants of the documented Tlatoani.
In Mexico, the offspring of Moctezuma comes from her favorite daughter, the Mexican Princess Tecuixpo Ixtlixóchitl who was later baptized as Isabel de Moctezuma. From his union with Hernán Cortés, the first Spanish-Mexical was born recognized as such; Leonor Cortés Moctezuma. In total, Isabel de Moctezuma was married five times; First with Cuitláhuac, then with Cuauhtémoc, later with Alonso grade, at the death of grade he returned to nuptials with Don Pedro Gallego de Andrade who also dies shortly after and finally with Juan Cano de Saavedra.
Isabel had 7 children where Moctezuma's offspring arises in Mexico and Spain, are the Miravalle counts who fundamentally live in the city of Granada.
On the other hand, there is the offspring of Tlacahuepantzin Yohualicahuacatzin then baptized as Pedro de Moctezuma. The descendants of Pedro de Moctezuma exerted a great influence among the Spanish aristocracy. His son Diego Luis de Moctezuma married the noble Francisca de la Cueva and Valenzuela and connected the dynasty in Spain. After his death in Valladolid in 1606, the crown appointed his son Pedro Tesifón Conde de Moctezuma, later Ducado de Moctezuma de Tultengo whose title is today in possession of Juan José Marcilla de Teruel-Moctezuma.
What is the «Moctezuma pension»?
For centuries, one of the branches of descendants of Moctezuma perceived an amount of money derived from its status as landowners known as «Moctezuma pension.» This pension consisted of an amount received by the owners in exchange for giving the usufruct of land or buildings, that is, they were paid for being owners of a land granted by the King of Spain.
«The pension of the Moctezuma» was introduced by a card of Carlos V in 1552 in favor of Isabel de Moctezuma and his descendants. For more than 300 years, the descendants of Isabel de Moctezuma received that payment that remained until 1934 when the then President Abelardo L. Rodríguez abolished the «pension of the Moctezuma». A decision that some descendants dispute to this day.
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