the young') or Moctezuma II (1466 - 29 June 1520) was a mexica Huey tlatoani between 1502 and 1520. Moctezuma spelling is the most common and modern; however, most of sources from the 16th and 17TH centuries refer that his name was Motecuhzoma including by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, who used a form closer to the Nahuatl: Motecuçoma and Motecuhzomatzin. Due to courtesy reasons and royal respect the suffix "tzin" (small in Nahuatl) was often added. Also called Moteczuma in the work of Salvador de Madariaga "Hernán Cortés". According to the Tlaxcala history of Diego Muñoz Camargo "this name Moctheuzomatzin means both as Given Lord, taking it literally; but in the moral sense means frown, Lord over all Lords and the largest of all, and very severe and serious Lord and man of courage and frowning, that it is suddenly angry with slight occasion." However 16th century Nahuatl language scholars, such as Motolinia, Torquemada, Betancourt, Sigüenza, rejected the sense of given man and deduced that Moctheuzomatzin came from the pronoun mo from teuhtil or tecuhtli, "Lord or Knight" and çoma or çuma, "frown who is angry, have courage, deriving from it, çu ucalli, frowning and full of courage", tzin reverential termination. So its meaning is "frowning man, serious, cautious, serious, that makes other fear and respect".
The ordinal number is currently used to distinguish him from his namesake, also Huey tlatoani, Moctezuma Ilhuicamina (Moctezuma I), to whom the indigenous chroniclers also called Huehuemotecuhzoma or 'Moctezuma the elder'.
He had eight daughters, including Doña Isabel Moctezuma, and eleven sons, among them Chimalpopoca (not to confuse with the prior Huey tlatoani) and Tlaltecatzin.
In 1520, while he was prisoner of the spanish invaders, the Tlatócan removed him from power and appointed Cuitláhuac as his successor.
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