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Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso
Born1510
Trujillo, Spain
Died10 April 1548 (aged 37–38)
Cusco, Peru
Cause of deathDecapitation
OccupationConquistador
Known forRaping the Incan queen Cura Ocllo
Relatives
  • Juan Pizarro (brother)
  • Francisco Pizarro (half brother)
  • Hernándo Pizarro (half brother)
Military career
AllegianceGonzalo Pizarro Spanish Empire
Years of service1530–1548
Battles/warsConquest of the Inca Empire

Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso ([gonˈθalo piˈθaro]; 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.

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Cura Ocllo

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the Inca Empire, she was abducted and raped by the Spanish soldier Gonzalo Pizarro in an incident that greatly exacerbated tensions with Yupanqui, who...

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encomenderos and was killed in 1546 by the landowning faction led by Gonzalo Pizarro. Pizarro wanted to maintain a political structure built upon the Incan model...

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Battle of Las Salinas

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conflict and decisive confrontation between the forces of Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro against those of rival conquistador Diego de Almagro, on April 6, 1538...

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Quispe Sisa

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birth to Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui, and to Gonzalo Pizarro the following year, however Gonzalo died young. Separated from Pizarro in 1538, she lost custody...

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La Canela

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commodities, the search on the American mainland continued. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro led an expedition east of Quito with Francisco de Orellana in search...

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Gonzalo Pizarro Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Sucumbíos Province. Its capital is the town of Lumbaqui. Its population at the 2001 census...

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El Dorado

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to Santafe de Bogotá. In December of 1540, Gonzalo Pizarro, the younger half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador who toppled the Incan...

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Siege of Cusco

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humiliated Manco when Juan Pizarro and Gonzalo Pizarro, two of Francisco's younger brothers, controlled the city. Juan Pizarro imprisoned Manco after he...

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List of conquistadors

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Pedro Pizarro

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cousin of Francisco Pizarro and his half-brothers: Gonzalo Pizarro, Hernando Pizarro and Juan Pizarro. When Francisco left Spain for his third expedition...

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Battle of Chupas

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unsuccessful, however, as Pizarro was succeeded as governor by Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, despite claims from his brother Gonzalo Pizarro, whose claims to join...

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History of Cusco

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he fought against Hernando Pizarro for control of the city. While Cusco was under the authority of Juan and Gonzalo Pizarro, Francisco's brothers, Manco...

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La Paz

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commemoration of the restoration of peace following the insurrection of Gonzalo Pizarro and fellow conquistadors against the first viceroy of Peru. The city...

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Conquistador

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implement the New Laws and suppress the encomiendas. Gonzalo Pizarro, another brother of Francisco Pizarro, rose in revolt, killed viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela...

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Battle of Huarina

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Vela and later defeating and killing him in the battle of Añaquito, Gonzalo Pizarro assembled an army of 1,200 men to press claims for the rule over Peru...

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