The first Spanish-born Mexicans to arrive on their native soil were the children of soldiers in Hernán Cortés's army who returned to Seville and Extremadura and the descendants of Aztec royalty which included the titled Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo and in Granada, the Counts of Miravalle [REF].
During the early twentieth century, there was already a permanent Mexican community in Spain, many of whom were exiled during the Mexican Revolution.