[or Cuauhtemotzin]. Thirteenth and last Mexican king, born in 1495, ascended the Mexican throne in 1521, and surrendered, with the City of Mexico, to Cortés, in August of the same year. He was subjected to torture in a vain attempt to induce him to disclose the hiding-place of his treasures, and, after being kept in confinement three years, was executed. An elaborate monument surmounted by his statue was erected to his memory in the City of Mexico in 1887.
