Event
Cuauhtémoc tortured over the hidden gold
After the fall, Cuauhtémoc and another ruler were tortured to make them say where treasure was hidden; Bernal Díaz says the crown officials pressed for it and Cortés at last consented.
- Dates
- 1521
- Place
- Tenochtitlan
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
- involved Cuauhtémoc
- involved Hernán Cortés
According to Florentine Codex
- appears in Florentine Codex
After the fall, Cuauhtémoc and another ruler were tortured to make them say where treasure was hidden; Bernal Díaz says the crown officials pressed for it and Cortés at last consented.
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involved
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Cuauhtémoc
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Bernal Díaz's account: the officers proposed it, and Cortés consented to quiet the suspicion that he wanted the gold for himself.
- Hernán Cortés According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 1
appears in
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Florentine Codex
According to Florentine Codex
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Book 12 has the Captain demanding more gold of the rulers after the fall.
Timeline 1 date
- 1521 Cuauhtémoc tortured over the hidden gold
Proof 2 sources
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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, volume 2 (English translation by John Ingram Lockhart, 1844; text via Project Gutenberg #32475), Project Gutenberg (from the translation published in London, 1844), 1844.
Primary record
The officers then proposed that Quauhtemoctzin and the king of Tlacupa, his most intimate friend and cousin, should be put to the torture, in order to extort from them a confession as to what had become of the treasures
Cortes, not willing that such a suspicion should any longer lie upon him, or that he should afterwards be called to an account on this score, at last consented that both should be put to the torture. Boiling hot oil was then applied to their feet
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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
That which was guarded in Mexico? You will show it all. For our lords seek it diligently!
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