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However, before this could happen, a new viceroy, the Marqués de Falces, arrived in Vera Cruz on November 15, 1567. He allowed both of Martín's brothers to leave New Spain and for Luis to go serve time in a colony near Algeria while Martin was allowed to plead his case before the king. However, Martín, Malinche's son, stayed in Mexico.
He had an older half-brother with the same name Martín Cortés (1523-1568), son of Hernán Cortés and Doña Marina (La Malinche), nicknamed "El Mestizo". Illegitimate by birth, Doña Marina's son Martín lacked the noble title of don, which his younger, legitimate half-brother held. [1]
Marina or Malintzin [maˈlintsin] (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche [la maˈlintʃe], a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, became known for contributing to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. [1]
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She is often known as La Malinche and also sometimes called "Malintzin" or Malinalli. [65] Later, the Aztecs would come to call Cortés "Malintzin" or La Malinche by dint of his close association with her. [66] Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote in his account The True History of the Conquest of New Spain that Marina was "truly a great princess".
Monument to the Mestizaje in Mexico City, showing Hernan Cortes, La Malinche and their son, Martín Cortes, one of the first mestizos in Mexico.. When the term mestizo and the caste system were introduced to Mexico is unknown, but the earliest surviving records categorizing people by "qualities" (as castes were known in early colonial Mexico) are late-18th-century church birth and marriage ...
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Below the dating glyphs is the inspiring actor of the killing, Mexicatl Cozoololtic, [63] [c] who accused Cuauhtemoc of plotting to kill Cortés and La Malinche. [64] Mexicatl Cozoololtic watches from afar as a Mayan lord, [63] possibly Paxbolonacha, [65] brings drums out of a building for a celebration at Acallan. [63]