Editing Moctezuma II (section)

===Wives, concubines, and children===
[[File:Retrato de Moctezuma II.png|thumb|upright|Anonymous portrait of Moctezuma II, 17th century.]]
[[File:Capitán general, Copia de un retrato de Hernán Cortés, ~1485 - 2-12-1547, retrato anónimo (1525).jpg|thumb|left|Colonial copy of a portrait of Hernán Cortés dated to the year 1525]]
Moctezuma had numerous wives and [[concubine]]s by whom he fathered an enormous family, but only two women held the position of queen – [[Tlapalizquixochtzin]] and [[Teotlalco]]. His partnership with Tlapalizquixochtzin, daughter of  [[Matlaccoatzin]] of [[Ecatepec]], also made him king consort of Ecatepec since she was queen of that city.{{sfn|Chimalpahin|1997|p=101}} However, Spanish accounts describe that very few people in Mexico knew that these two women held such positions of power, some of those who knew being a few of his close servants.{{sfn|Díaz del Castillo|2011|p=283}}

[[File:Tecuichpoch.png|thumb|upright=1.1|right|Genealogy of Tecuichpoch]]
Of his many wives may be named the princesses Teitlalco, Acatlan, and Miahuaxochitl, of whom the first named appears to have been the only legitimate consort. By her, he left a son, [[Chimalpopoca (Moctezuma)|Chimalpopoca]], who fell during the [[La Noche Triste|Noche Triste]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=de Sahagún |first1=Bernardino |last2=Anderson |first2=Arthur James Outram |last3=Dibble |first3=Charles E. |title=Florentine Codex Book 12 – The Conquest of Mexico |date=1975 |publisher=University of Utah Press |location=Salt Lake City |isbn=9781607811671 |page=68}}</ref> and a daughter, [[Tecuichpoch]], later baptized as Isabel Moctezuma. By the Princess Acatlan were left two daughters, baptized as Maria and Mariana (also known as Leonor);<ref name="jstor.org">Chipman, D. (2005). "The Patrimony of Mariana and Pedro Moctezuma". In ''Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty under Spanish Rule, 1520–1700'' (pp. 75–95). University of Texas Press. Retrieved July 7, 2021. {{JSTOR|10.7560/706286.8}}.</ref> the latter alone left offspring, from whom descends the Sotelo-Montezuma family.<ref>Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1883). ''History of Mexico''. Vol. L 1516–1521.</ref>

Though the exact number of his children is unknown and the names of most of them have been lost to history, according to a Spanish chronicler, by the time he was taken captive, Moctezuma had fathered 100 children and fifty of his wives and concubines were then in some stage of pregnancy, though this estimate may have been exaggerated.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sweet |first1=David G. |first2=Gary B. |last2=Nash |name-list-style=amp |year=1981 |title=Struggle and Survival in Colonial America |edition=1st |location=Berkeley |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=0-520-04110-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/strugglesurvival0000unse |page=215}}</ref> As Aztec culture made class distinctions between the children of senior wives, lesser wives, and concubines, not all of his children were considered equal in nobility or inheritance rights. Among his many children were Princess [[Isabel Moctezuma]], Princess Mariana Leonor Moctezuma,<ref name="jstor.org"/> and sons [[Chimalpopoca (Moctezuma)|Chimalpopoca]] (not to be confused with the previous ''huey tlatoani'') and [[Tlaltecatzin]].<ref>{{cite book |last=González-Obregón |first=Luis|year=1992 |title=Las Calles de México |edition=1st |location=Ciudad de México, DF |publisher=[[Librería Porrúa|Editorial Porrúa]] |isbn=968-452-299-1}}</ref> Noteworthy is also [[Francisca de Moctezuma]], his daughter by [[Tlapalizquixochtzin]], Queen-regant of Ecatepec. She married [[Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin|Don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin]], the first governor of Mexico City.