He had refused all nourishment, as well as medicine, from the time he had been wounded.

Father Olmedo did his best to persuade him to embrace the Christian faith, but Montezuma stoutly refused.

Just before he died he sent for Cortez, and recommended his three daughters by his principal wife to his charge; begging him to interest his master, the emperor, on their behalf, and to see that they had some portion of their rightful inheritance.
"Your lord will do this," he said, "if only for the friendly offices I have rendered the Spaniards; and for the love that I have shown them, though it has brought me to this condition; but for this I bear them no ill will." This Cortez promised and, after the conquest, took the three ladies into his own family.

They were instructed in the doctrines of Christianity, and were married to Spanish nobles, and handsome dowries assigned to them.
The news of Montezuma's death was received with real grief by the Spaniards, to whom his generosity, and constant kindness, and gentleness of manner had endeared him.

There can be but little doubt that, in spite of the accusations against him of meditating treachery, Montezuma was, from the time they entered the capital, sincere in his goodwill towards the Spaniards.