Malinche's daughter sued her father's widow for the encomienda of Xilotepec, citing her mother's service to the Crown in the conquest

Malinche, whom the Spaniards called Doña Marina, was an Indigenous woman given to Hernán Cortés in 1519 who became his interpreter through the conquest of Tenochtitlan. Bernal Díaz del Castillo placed her birth at Coatzacoalcos about 1503. She bore Cortés a son, Martín, in 1522. During the 1524 to 1526 expedition to Honduras she married the Spanish hidalgo Juan Jaramillo at Orizaba, and they had a daughter, María. Scholars estimate that Malinche died before February 1529. Jaramillo held the encomienda of Xilotepec, the right to the tribute of its towns. He married a Spanish woman, Beatriz de Andrada, who raised María. When Jaramillo died, his widow succeeded to half of the encomienda. María Jaramillo sued for Xilotepec. Historian Joanne Chaison, working from the published colonial documents, found that María based her claim on the "great service" her mother had given the Spanish Crown during the conquest. A 1560 letter in the Paso y Troncoso collection shows Beatriz de Andrada holding one half of the encomienda, and the encomienda lists record that she later married Francisco de Velasco. The court's decision does not survive. Chaison infers that the two women reached a settlement and divided the tribute between them. No record has been found of where Malinche is buried^†.