Event
Death of Moctezuma
Moctezuma died in Spanish hands in late June 1520. Cortés and Bernal Díaz say his own people wounded him; accounts that MacNutt reports from the Mexican side say the Spaniards killed him.
- Dates
- Jun 1520
- Place
- Tenochtitlan
According to Hernán Cortés
- involved Moctezuma II
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- involved Moctezuma II
According to Florentine Codex
- involved Moctezuma II
According to Francis Augustus MacNutt
- involved Moctezuma II
- involved Moctezuma II
- involved Moctezuma II
Moctezuma died in Spanish hands in late June 1520. Cortés and Bernal Díaz say his own people wounded him; accounts that MacNutt reports from the Mexican side say the Spaniards killed him.
Connections 8
involved
- Moctezuma II According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
- Moctezuma II According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 2
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Moctezuma II
According to Florentine Codex
Primary record
3
Book 12 says the Spaniards cast out the bodies of Moctezuma and Itzquauhtzin, who had died; the passage as read here does not say who killed him. The scan's English is partly garbled at this line; the book's list of illustrations and the Nahuatl word omjcque (they died) agree. An editors' note in the same book, from the same scan, says the many versions of his death fall into two groups, one that the Spaniards killed him and one that a stone struck him as he tried to calm his people.
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Moctezuma II
According to Francis Augustus MacNutt
Scholarship & press
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MacNutt: the Spaniards attributed his death to the stone; the Mexicans asserted Cortés had him put to death. He quotes Durán as saying they found him dead with chains on his feet and five dagger wounds in his breast. These are accounts reported, not findings.
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Moctezuma II
According to Francis Augustus MacNutt
Scholarship & press
4
MacNutt reports that the Codex Ramírez, through Orozco y Berra, says Moctezuma was found stabbed by the Spaniards.
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Moctezuma II
According to Francis Augustus MacNutt
Scholarship & press
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MacNutt's date.
appears in
- Florentine Codex Primary record 3
- True History of the Conquest of New Spain Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- Jun 1520 Death of Moctezuma
Proof 4 sources
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Letters of Cortés: the five letters of relation to the Emperor Charles V, volume 1 (English translation by Francis Augustus MacNutt, 1908; the Second Letter is dated 30 October 1520), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1908.
Primary record
one of his own subjects struck him on the head with a stone, with such force that within three days he died
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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, volume 1 (English translation by John Ingram Lockhart, 1844; text via Project Gutenberg #32474), Project Gutenberg (from the translation published in London, 1844), 1844.
Primary record
he was struck by an arrow, and three stones from a sling, by which he was wounded in the arm, leg, and in his head
Cortes, his officers, and all of us, shed tears for this unfortunate monarch
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Florentine Codex, Book 12: The Conquest of Mexico (Nahuatl text gathered under Bernardino de Sahagún in the 1500s; English translation by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, second edition, 1975), School of American Research and the University of Utah; the manuscript is on the Getty Research Institute's Digital Florentine Codex, 1975.
Primary record
And when they were seen, when they were known to be Moctezuma and Itzquauhtzin, then they quickly took up Moctezuma in their arms.
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Letters of Cortés, volume 1: MacNutt's introduction and appendices (1908), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1908.
Scholarship & press
by the Mexicans, it was on the contrary, asserted that he was put to death by Cortes
They found him dead with chains upon his feet, and five dagger wounds in his breast
The Codex Ramirez, before quoted from the work of Orozco y Berra, states that Montezuma was found stabbed to death by the Spaniards, with the other chiefs who shared his captivity.
Montezuma Xocoyotzin ninth king of Mexico died on June 30, 1520
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