615964 MS Hunter 242 f.246v, Cortes on Horseback, standing over the defeated Aztec King Moctezuma, illustration from the from \'Historia de Tlaxcala\' by Diego Munoz Camargo (pen & ink on paper) by Mexican School, (16th century); Glasgow University Library, Scotland; (add.info.: Hern獺n Cort矇s de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485??547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cort矇s was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.); 穢 University of Glasgow Library ; Mexican, out of copyright.