Case file · Witch trials
Burning of Carlos Ometochtzin
On 30 November 1539 Don Carlos Ometochtzin, a noble of Texcoco, was burned in Mexico City after Zumárraga's tribunal convicted him of idolatry and heresy.
1539 CE · 19.43, -99.13 · status: official
The account
The execution of a baptised Indigenous lord caused alarm in Spain; Zumárraga was reprimanded, and Native people were later excluded from the jurisdiction of the Holy Office founded in 1571.