Comunidad Moctezuma's Descendants in Aguascalientes Tracking the offspring of the last Aztec monarch

Although Moctezuma, Emperor of the Aztec Empire, was killed in June 1520 during the fall of Tenochtitl?ín (now Mexico City), many of his descendants were accorded royal treatment during the Spanish colonial period. In her dissertation for the Washington State University in 2010, Margo Tamez stated that the noble daughters of Moctezuma were "granted, by the Spanish Crown, significant encomiendas in perpetuity. Through the legal forms of land-grants, the Crown expressed its recognition of Moctezuma II's high status among the dynastic ruling elites."