Hvem daterede Hernán Cortés?

Hernán Cortés (også kaldet Hernando eller Fernando Cortés, han underskrev alle sine breve Fernán Cortés; født 1485, død 2. december 1547) var en conquistador, der med få hundrede spaniere og flere tusinde mesoamerikanere erobrede Mexico for Spanien, ødelagde Tenochtitlán, aztekernes hovedstad og hovedsæde for et af de største imperier i Mesoamerika. Han opløste aztekerriget under kejser Moctezuma II og dennes efterfølger, Cuauhtemoc og banede vejen for etableringen af den spanske kolonimagt på det amerikanske fastland.

Cortezhavet er opkaldt efter Hernán Cortés.

La Malinche (* um 1505 nahe Coatzacoalcos; † um 1529 in Tenochtitlan), im Nahuatl Malintzin oder Malinalli genannt, von den Spaniern auf den Namen Marina getauft und danach Doña Marina genannt, spielte als Dolmetscherin und spätere Geliebte des Konquistadors Hernán Cortés eine bedeutende Rolle während dessen Eroberungsfeldzuges gegen die Azteken. Auch Cortés selbst wurde „Malinche“ genannt, etwa von Moctezuma.

Doña Isabel Moctezuma (born Tecuichpoch Ichcaxochitzin; 1509/1510 – 1550/1551) was a daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. She was the consort of Atlixcatzin, a tlacateccatl, and of the Aztec emperors Cuitlahuac, and Cuauhtemoc and as such the last Aztec empress. After the Spanish conquest, Doña Isabel was recognized as Moctezuma's legitimate heir, and became one of the indigenous Mexicans granted an encomienda. Among the others were her half-sister Marina (or Leonor) Moctezuma, and Juan Sánchez, an Indian governor in Oaxaca.

Isabel was married to one tlacateccatl, two Aztec emperors and three Spaniards, and widowed five times. She had a daughter out of wedlock whom she refused to recognize, Leonor Cortés Moctezuma, with conquistador Hernán Cortés. Her sons founded a line of Spanish nobility. The title of Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo descends from her brother, and still exists.