Leonor de Moctezuma

One of three maiden daughters presented to Hernan Cortes by Moctezuma in November 1519, according to Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, writer for Crónica Mexicayotl (published 1975). Born from the daughter of chief counselor Tlilpotonqui (Moctezuma II's cousin). Married twice, received as dowry the town of Ecatepec within present Mexico Estado in the first marriage:

Spouses:

• 1. Juan de la Paez.
• 2. Cristobal de Valderama (who sired Leonor Valderama de Moctezuma - Leonor married Diego Arias de Sotelo and were progenitors of the Sotelo Moctezuma family)

Source: Doña Isabel de Moctezuma: the emperor’s favourite daughter? by Anastasia Kalyuta, ethnohistorian with the Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg

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Schmal, John P.; Moctezuma's Descendants in Aguascalientes ... Tracking the offspring of the last Aztec monarch ... [LatinoLA: January 8, 2014] ... http://latinola.com/story.php?story=12449

The Aguascalientes Branch ... For many years, Aguascalientes and Nueva Galicia researchers have agreed that one branch of Moctezuma's descendants ended up in Aguascalientes. However, this family was not as well chronicled as the other branches of the family. Several researchers, including Guillermo Tovar de Teresa and Mariano Gonzalez-Leal, have put together a fair amount of information on this lineage, although the paper trail for this branch is not perfect as it is for some of the other descendants of Moctezuma.

GENERATION 2: MARIANA LEONOR MOCTEZUMA (1505-1562)

MARIANA LEONOR MOCTEZUMA was one of the daughters of Moctezuma II. It is believed that she was Moctezuma's daughter by a noble Mixtec woman of Acatlan, a town and province that was in alliance with Tenochtitlán at the time of the Spanish invasion. Leonor was Christianized by Hernán Cortés and was then endowed with the encomienda of Ecatepec. The fact that Moctezuma was the father of Leonor (alias Marina) and father-in-law of X'poval [Christoval] de Valderrama was confirmed by a 1574 family tree chart that is available in Mexico's Archivo General (Mexico Archivo General - AGI - MP - Escudos: 211).

According to the author Donald E. Chipman (Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty Under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700, pp. 70-71), Marianna was married in 1527 to Juan Páez, a conquistador who died by late August 1529. Two years later in 1531, Mariana married her second husband, Cristobal de Valderrama. Don Cristobal, a native of Burgos, España, was a conquistador who served in Michoacán, Colima and Zacatula. The History of Tarímbaro (Michoacán) states that Cristobal de Valderrama was given the encomienda of Tarímbaro (1526-1537) and of Ecatepec, and he is mentioned in the text of Michoacán's early history during the 1530s until his death in November 1537. Mariana and Don Cristobal had only one daughter, Leonor de Valderrama y Moctezuma, who was baptized sometime around 1532. Chipman discusses this family on pages 76 through 77 of his book.