The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18

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copyrighted. 1913. by Frank G. Car
penter)

both fernando Cortez and the
- Emperor Montezuma, whom he
conquered. are still living in Mexico? l
am told that this is the case, and that
some of them have in their possession
big estates which have come down
through the past. The family Of Monte
yuma was large and he left his children
to the care of Cortez. who promised to
care for them as though they were his
own. This Cortez did, sending them 10
Spain, where they were educated in the
imperial household Of Cahrles v some
of them intermarried with Spanish mobiles
and today there are great landed proper
ties in Salamanca which belong to a
Muntezuma, having come down through
ii generations from the son of the Emf
peror The present head of that family
is known as Vicente Augustine Maldon-
ado Carbaljal Cano Montezuma. He
has the title of Marquis dc Castellano
and is a high Spanish noble, with this
strain Of the imperial blood of the Aztecs.
He is we'll educated man and has
studied for the law, although he has
never practiced He is now 70 and he
has two sons. one famous as states
man and the other as musical COM
-vposer.
There are still several Montezumas in
Mexico City One is a lawyer, another is
is banker and a third a musician. l am
told there is royal Aztec blood in the
veins of other families here from whom
the name Montezuma has PASSED away,
and that 1t flows also through some of
the great families of Spain and tints
even some of the ducal families of Eng
land. The Empress Eugene, the wife of
NAPOLEON III, was born at Granada, In
Spain, but she Is said to have had
streak of Montezuma in her veins, the
same coming from the Count of Mira
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Montezuma The MiraNalles family still
owns big estates near Granada.
Another descendant of Montezuma
married a relative of the oldest son or
Columbus, and 1t is said that one of
Montezuma's daughters was taken by
Cortez as his wife or his mistress.
Some Love Affairs of Cortez
Indeed Hernando Cortez was man
of many loves and many marriages.
He left the University of Salamanca
at the age of 16 on account of his love
affairs and when he had first decided
to try his fortune in the new world, his
departure was postponed by an accident
received in scaling a tumbledown wall
on his way to final meeting with ono
of his sweethearts. He was only 10
years old when he sailed for Santo
DoAningo, and there he got his first
wife, beautiful Spanish girl, named
Catalina Juarez, whom he refused for
a time TO marry, Dul was dllcI Wdit
forced to do so. She brought him both
lands and money and also the friend
ship of the governor Velasquez, who
later on sent him from Cuba asrthe
commander of the expedition to push
the conquest of Mexico
Dona Marina, the Indian Maiden
While going to Mexico, Cortez picked
up at Tabasco, Marina, a beautiful In
dian girl, and made her his mistress.
He taught her Spanish and she became
the interpreter through whom he talked
with the natives of different parts of
Mexico She stuck by him lin all his
troubles and he had by her "a son anl
three daughters. When Cortez re
turned to Spain he married this girl
to one of his lieutenants.
The two lived together in Mexico
City or at Cortez's home near there and
she went with him during his tours.
He had an estate at Orizaba and it was
in his palace there that he married
this girl off to one of his 1ieutenants
Juan Jaramillo, and by him she had a
number of children. As late as the close
of the sixteenth century the heirs of
Dona Mariana and Jaramillo were liv-
ing near Orizaba
Strangled With Her Pearl Necklace
1t was while CorteZ was living with
Donna Marina, that his wife, whom he
had left in Cuba, came to Mexico. Cor
tez had then become famous and as
the story goes his wife sneaked into
the country without his knowledge
and accosted him at Coyohuacan. He
took her into his palace, and there, as
the tradition goes, after one of his
riotcus banquets, he strangled her with
her own necklace of pearls. Others say
that she committed suicide. At any