Grants and privileges to consolidate an Indian entailed estate: from Don Pedro Moctezuma Tlacahuepantzin to Don Pedro Tesifón Moctezuma, first Count of Moctezuma (1569-1639).
Jiménez Abollado, Francisco Luís
2011
"Mercedes y privilegios para consolidar un mayorazgo indiano: de don Pedro Moctezuma Tlacahuepantzin a don Pedro Tesifón Moctezuma, primer Conde de Moctezuma (1569-1639)," Boletín Americanista, year LXI.2, no. 63, Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, pp. 189-210. ISSN: 0520-4100.
Abstract
For the descendants of Moctezuma II, the adjudication of grants and privileges became a way to survive throughout the viceregal period. For this, they used reasoning based on their ancestry, the peaceful transmission of their territorial patrimony to the Hispanic Crown, as well as presumed poverty or need. This analysis will focus on the successors of the only male son of Moctezuma who survived the Castilian conquest: Don Pedro Moctezuma Tlacahuepantzin. The adjudications of grants, coastal aids and encomiendas vacas were continuous between the last third of the sixteenth century and the end of the viceregal period.
