Event
Moctezuma taken into the Spanish quarters
Soon after arriving, Cortés took Moctezuma to the Spanish quarters. Cortés writes that it was to settle the killing of Spaniards on the coast; the Nahua account describes a seizure.
- Dates
- 1519
- Place
- Tenochtitlan
According to Hernán Cortés
- involved Moctezuma II
- involved Hernán Cortés
- involved Tenochtitlan
- involved Charles V
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- involved Charles V
According to Florentine Codex
- appears in Florentine Codex
- appears in Florentine Codex
Soon after arriving, Cortés took Moctezuma to the Spanish quarters. Cortés writes that it was to settle the killing of Spaniards on the coast; the Nahua account describes a seizure.
Connections 9
interventions
- Moctezuma II Nov 1519 was taken to the Spanish quarters Primary record 1
involved
- Moctezuma II According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
- Hernán Cortés According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
- Tenochtitlan According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
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Charles V
According to Hernán Cortés
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Cortés writes that he asked Moctezuma to have the lords of the provinces contribute gold, and that what he set aside for the king came to this sum. It is his count.
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Charles V
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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2
Bernal Díaz counts the gold alone at above 600,000 pesos, before the king's fifth was taken out. He says soldiers claimed that above a third had already disappeared; that is their charge, as he reports it.
appears in
- Letters of relation of Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
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Florentine Codex
According to Florentine Codex
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3
The Nahua account says the Spaniards seized Moctezuma in the palace and kept him under watch.
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Florentine Codex
According to Florentine Codex
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3
Book 12 on the plunder of the storehouse: the gold stripped from the shields, the rest burned, the gold made into bars.
Timeline 2 dates
- 1519 Moctezuma taken into the Spanish quarters
- Nov 1519 Moctezuma II intervened in Moctezuma taken into the Spanish quarters
Proof 3 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
I earnestly prayed him not to feel pained at this, because he would not be kept a prisoner, but would have entire liberty
and thus all was as completely quiet as though nothing had happened; and this continued all the time I kept Montezuma prisoner
Thus we went to my quarters without causing any commotion in the city
jewels of gold, and silver, and the feather-work, and the stones, and the many other things of value which I assigned and allotted to Your Sacred Majesty, amounting to the sum of one hundred thousand ducats and more.
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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.
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the gold alone, not counting the silver and other precious things, was found to be worth above 600,000 pesos
they asserted that above one third had already disappeared since the three heaps had been first collected together
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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
Even before it had grown dark, there was terror, there was astonishment, there was apprehension, there was a stunning of the people.
And as all the gold was detached, at once they ignited, set fire to, applied fire to all the various precious things [which remained].
And the gold the Spaniards formed into separate bars.
But the rest of the green stone the Tlaxcallans just stole.
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