Juan Moctezuma and Cortés

Juan Moctezuma y Cortés (1754 or 1757 - 1816) was one of the four hundred Catholic priests who participated in the Mexican War of Independence. According to the chronicles of the nineteenth century was originally from Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla and was descended from the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin reason why it had a noble indigenous origin. He seconded the independence movement initiated by the priest Miguel Hidalgo in the region of the Sierra de Zongolica in Veracruz and fought under the orders of Nicolás Bravo and José María Morelos. After several victories and defeats, he ended his days as governor of Oaxaca by 1814 and in February 1816 is appointed by the Congress of Anahuac Commissioner Tehuacan, a position he held for a few months and died in June of that year. p>

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