Isabel de Moctezuma

"I, Tecuixpo Ixtlaxóchitl, the noble maiden, was the only legitimate daughter of Emperor Moctezuma. At the death of my father I was raised to the rank of empress of the Aztecs. I hated the Spanish and then I loved them. I despised their God and then I believed in him. An earthquake of changes collapsed my interior, but I knew how to build something beautiful on those ruins. Then Isabel de Moctezuma was born and, with her, a new hope for many who had lost themselves in the darkness of the unknown " . José Miguel Carrillo de Albornoz has masterfully fictionalized the life of his ancestor Doña Isabel de Moctezuma, a woman who was born a princess, was twice empress through her marriages to Cuitlahuac and Cuauhtemoc, the two successors of Moctezuma, and became the mother of Hispanic-Mexican miscegenation. After the conquest she had a daughter with Cortés himself, whom she repudiated, and six children from her marriages with Pedro Gallego de Andrade and Juan Cano de Saavedra. Queen without a throne after the fall of the Aztec empire, she ended her days as the most revered and respected lady of Viceroyalty Mexico. The memory of her and her memory are a legend that still endures today in the memory of Mexicans.