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festival befitting the needs of such a monarch ; but if he asked for 

 it with genuine desire, it was sufficient that he died with that wish, 

 that being the case called by the theologians and summarists bap- 

 tismum flaminis, etc. 



407. At his death in the midst of that uprising, he was succeeded 

 by his brother Cuetlauac, who lived 60 days after his election, and 

 died of smallpox ; he had married a niece of his, daughter of Mote- 

 zuma. Axayaca, the third brother, should have succeeded him, but 

 as there was a general revolt, the High Priest Quautimoc his nephew, 

 who was ambitious to be king and defend the country against the 

 Spaniards, killed his uncle Axayaca, seized the supreme power and 

 issued dictatorial commands. He defended the city courageously until 

 on August 13, 1521, Cortes captured it, and over 100,000 of the 

 Mexicans perished, including most of the city's aristocracy. Thus 

 after the death of Motezuma's brothers, his sons inherited the 

 kingship. 



Chapter XIV 



Continuing the Account of the Filiation of the Mexican Kings. 



408. When the uprising of the Mexicans forced the Spaniards to 

 leave Mexico City after the death of Motezuma resulting from the 

 stone wound he had received from the Mexicans, as the Spaniards 

 realized that they were bereft of the Emperor Motezuma's support, 

 without which they could neither hold out nor defend themselves any 

 length of time, Fernando Cortes decided they should leave at night ; 

 and so they did, but the Mexicans found it out and many of the 

 Spaniards died in the retreat, and among them two sons of Mote- 

 zuma and other aristocrats, so that only Don Pedro Motezuma was 

 left, for at the outbreak of the rebellion he had taken refuge in Tulan 

 with his mother. 



409. After the conversion of this Prince Motezuma to Christianity 

 he was named Don Pedro, and Fernando Cortes turned over to him 

 one of the wards of Mexico City, as was suitable for the lord and 

 sole heir of that city and empire. The Emperor Motezuma left also 

 several daughters, two of them legitimate, as mentioned by the his- 

 torians ; after their baptism the one was named Doiia Isabel and the 

 other Doiia Leonor. Before her conversion Dofia Isabel had been 

 married to her uncle Cuetlauac, and after his death in second nuptials 

 with Quautimoc, and after her conversion she became the wife of 

 Pedro Gallego, by whom she had a son, Juan Gallego Motezuma; 

 and after the death of Pedro Gallego she was married for the last 

 time to Juan Cano de Caceres, by whom she had many children. 



