In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pizarro and the second or maternal family name is Alonso.
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Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso
Born
1510
Trujillo, Spain
Died
10 April 1548 (aged 37–38)
Cusco, Peru
Cause of death
Decapitation
Occupation
Conquistador
Known for
Raping the Incan queen Cura Ocllo
Relatives
Juan Pizarro (brother)
Francisco Pizarro (half brother)
Hernándo Pizarro (half brother)
Military career
Allegiance
Spanish Empire
Years of service
1530–1548
Battles/wars
Conquest of the Inca Empire
Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso ([gonˈθalopiˈθaro]; 1510 – 10 April 1548) was a Spanish conquistador. He was the younger paternal half brother of Francisco Pizarro, who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Pizarro was the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (1446–1522), who, as an infantry colonel, served under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba during the Italian Wars. He was also the younger paternal half brother of Hernándo Pizarro y de Vargas and the older paternal full brother of Juan Pizarro y Alonso.
brother of Francisco Pizarro, who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Pizarro was the illegitimate son of GonzaloPizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar...
Captain GonzaloPizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) (1446–1522) – who as colonel of infantry served in the Italian campaigns under Gonzalo Fernández...
of Captain GonzaloPizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar and María Alonso Francisco Pizarro (d. 1541) illegitimate son of Captain GonzaloPizarro y Rodríguez...
Extremadura, Spain. He was the illegitimate son of infantry colonel GonzaloPizarro (1446–1522) and Francisca González, a woman of poor means. His date...
Francisco Pizarro from Lima to aid Hernando Pizarro. He was granted land at Puerto Viejo, on the coast of Ecuador.) In 1540 GonzaloPizarro arrived in...
– Hernando Pizarro executes Diego de Almagro 1539 – GonzaloPizarro invades and sacks Vilcabamba; Manco Inca escapes but Francisco Pizarro executes Manco's...
the Inca Empire, she was abducted and raped by the Spanish soldier GonzaloPizarro in an incident that greatly exacerbated tensions with Yupanqui, who...
encomenderos and was killed in 1546 by the landowning faction led by GonzaloPizarro. Pizarro wanted to maintain a political structure built upon the Incan model...
The Battle of Jaquijahuana was fought between the forces of GonzaloPizarro and Pedro de la Gasca, on April 9, 1548, during the Revolt of the Encomenderos [es]...
conflict and decisive confrontation between the forces of Hernando and GonzaloPizarro against those of rival conquistador Diego de Almagro, on April 6, 1538...
birth to Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui, and to GonzaloPizarro the following year, however Gonzalo died young. Separated from Pizarro in 1538, she lost custody...
commodities, the search on the American mainland continued. In 1541, GonzaloPizarro led an expedition east of Quito with Francisco de Orellana in search...
GonzaloPizarro Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Sucumbíos Province. Its capital is the town of Lumbaqui. Its population at the 2001 census...
to Santafe de Bogotá. In December of 1540, GonzaloPizarro, the younger half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador who toppled the Incan...
humiliated Manco when Juan Pizarro and GonzaloPizarro, two of Francisco's younger brothers, controlled the city. Juan Pizarro imprisoned Manco after he...
Pineda Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Francisco PizarroGonzaloPizarro Juan Pizarro Hernándo Pizarro Juan Ponce de León Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Hernán Pérez de...
cousin of Francisco Pizarro and his half-brothers: GonzaloPizarro, Hernando Pizarro and Juan Pizarro. When Francisco left Spain for his third expedition...
unsuccessful, however, as Pizarro was succeeded as governor by Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, despite claims from his brother GonzaloPizarro, whose claims to join...
he fought against Hernando Pizarro for control of the city. While Cusco was under the authority of Juan and GonzaloPizarro, Francisco's brothers, Manco...
commemoration of the restoration of peace following the insurrection of GonzaloPizarro and fellow conquistadors against the first viceroy of Peru. The city...
implement the New Laws and suppress the encomiendas. GonzaloPizarro, another brother of Francisco Pizarro, rose in revolt, killed viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela...
Vela and later defeating and killing him in the battle of Añaquito, GonzaloPizarro assembled an army of 1,200 men to press claims for the rule over Peru...