Cuauhtemoc was nephew to Moctezuma and Cuitlahuac. He was also Moctezuma's son-in-law because Cuauhtemoc married Moctezuma's daughter Tecuichpo.
William H. Prescott writes that Cuauhtemoc had "ample experience in military matters." Prescott adds: "He bore a sort of religious hatred to the Spaniards."
No one is sure when Cuauhtemoc was borned (it all depends on which historian you hear it from). The only thing that I could find about Cuauhtemoc's age is from the History of the Conquest. Bernal Diaz del Castillo writes that in 1525, before Cuauhtemoc's death, he was "not more than twenty-five years old."
After the fall of Tenochtitlan (not the people), Cuauhtemoc was tortured by Aldrete ordered by Cortes because he wanted to know where gold was at. Cuauhtemoc never said anything.
In 1525, Cuauhtemoc was serving as an auxiliary on a Cort?s-led expedition into Honduras. Cortes would later find out that Cuauhtemoc was trying to uprise against the Spanish. He captured Cuauhtemoc and was trial and found guilty. They were going to lynch him.
Before he was lynched, he said this to Cortes:
I knew what it was...to trust to your false promises; I knew that you had destined me to this fate since I did not fall by my own hand when you entered my city of Tenochtitlan.
He died on an Ash Wednesday in 1525 lynched on a ceiba tree which the tree is a silk-cotton tree, which is metaphor of greatness for the ruler, of comfort and protection for the people.
