Mariana Leonor Moctezuma dating history

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Mariana or Marina Leonor Moctezuma (c.1505–1562) was a daughter of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II. She survived the destruction of the Aztec Empire by the Spanish and allied indigenous peoples, plus a concurrent smallpox epidemic that killed one-half of the Aztecs in the Valley of Mexico. Her Aztec name is unknown, but she used the Spanish name Mariana in the 1520s and began using the name Leonor in the 1530s. Mariana's mother was a lesser wife of Moctezuma called Acatlan. She was one of three surviving children of Moctezuma II, the others being her half-sister Isabel Moctezuma and her half brother, Pedro. Isabel was a concubine of conqueror Hernan Cortés and bore him a chilld. Isabel was higher in the social structure of the Aztecs than Mariana but the Spanish awarded all three children encomiendas (landed estates) and they and their descendants were given rights and privileges as royal persons.