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some of whose descendants live today in Mexico City. Dona Leonor 

 was married to Alonso de Grado, as is recorded by Gomara, folio 295. 



410. But the one to be mentioned in the male issue and filiation of 

 the Mexican kings is Prince Motezuma, who after his baptism was 

 named Don Pedro. He was the legitimate son of the Emperor Mote- 

 zuma and the lady sovereign of the Province and State of Tula, who 

 after her conversion and baptism took the name of Dofia Maria 

 Miaguasuchil ; she was the granddaughter of Chimalpopoca, King 

 of Mexico. Thus Prince Don Pedro Motezuma inherited and took 

 possession of the Province and State of Tulan, as his mother's dowry 

 which she brought with her when she was married to the Emperor 

 Motezuma, viz, Tulan, Yzcla, Xicomallan, Ytolpan, Teptlan, Teato, 

 Tilcoya, Yuvalco, Techuchueco, Yagulgulpa, Yextaxemitexe, Yeteque, 

 Ytecaquipan, Exicoalt, Toltengo, Tecontepongo, Cyztasaqualla, 

 Ecuyelpan, Cacoculco, Etloca, Tealpongo, and Teapa ; these 22 vil- 

 lages belong to the Province of Tula, and their lords were all related 

 to the kings of Mexico and gave them their daughters in marriage, 

 as is recorded in their histories and is proved by the family tree of 

 the male genealogy and filiation of the kings of Mexico. 



411. Furthermore His Majesty King Don Felipe H (Philip H) 

 of glorious memory, to honor Prince Don Pedro Motezuma as lord 

 of that realm, and because of what the Emperor Motezuma had done 

 for the profit and advancement of the Spanish Crown in submitting 

 to Cortes and putting himself under the protection of the Caesarean 

 Majesty of Emperor Charles V, made him a grant of 3,000 gold 

 pesos de minas of 450 maravedis each on March 23, 1567, command- 

 ing by his royal w^arrant that the Marques de Fakes, who was then 

 Viceroy of New Spain, should settle this sum on him in open assign- 

 ments of Indians which should be entailed in perpetuity in the family 

 of this Prince Don Pedro and his descendants and successors, and 

 they have enjoyed and do enjoy these privileges, which however are 

 paid out of the Mexican Royal Treasury. 



Chapter XV 



Recording the Surviving Descendants of the Mexican Kings. 



412. It has likewise been certified that Prince Don Pedro Mote- 

 zuma, sole successor of the Emperor Motezuma, and his children, 

 are the heirs to the Province of Tula, through a lawsuit which was 

 fought in the Mexican Chancery Court between this Prince Don 

 Pedro Motezuma and Dona Maria Miaguasuchil his mother, on the 

 one hand, and on the other His Majesty's Attorney, Licentiate Lopez 



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