In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pizarro and the second or maternal family name is Vargas.
Hernando Pizarro
A steel etched print of Hernando Pizarro y de Vargas
Birth name
Hernando Pizarro
Nickname(s)
lima
Born
c. 1501–1508 Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain
Died
c. 1578 Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain
Buried
San Francisco Church, Trujillo
Allegiance
Spain
Rank
Captain
Battles/wars
Spanish conquest of Navarre
Italian Wars
Spanish conquest of Peru
Battle of Puná
Battle of Cajamarca
Siege of Cusco
Battle of Ollantaytambo
Battle of Las Salinas
Awards
Knight of the Order of Santiago
Spouse(s)
Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui
Children
5
Relations
Pizarro brothers
Hernando Pizarro y de Vargas (Spanish:[eɾˈnandopiˈθaro]; born between 1501 and 1508, died 1578) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the Pizarro brothers who ruled over Peru.
Hernando was born in Trujillo, (Extremadura), Spain, son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) (1446–1522) – who as colonel of infantry served in the Italian campaigns under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, and in Navarre, with some distinction – and wife Isabel de Vargas.
HernandoPizarro y de Vargas (Spanish: [eɾˈnando piˈθaro]; born between 1501 and 1508, died 1578) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the Pizarro brothers...
brother of HernándoPizarro y de Vargas and the older paternal full brother of Juan Pizarro y Alonso. Born in Trujillo, Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro accompanied...
of Pizarro, prompting a series of expeditions to the south. In 1524, while still in Panama, Pizarro formed a partnership with a priest, Hernando de Luque...
González Gonzalo Pizarro (d. 1548) second illegitimate son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar and María Alonso HernandoPizarro (d. 1578) legitimate...
Atahualpa, Pizarro and his men headed to Cuzco, the capital of the Incan Empire. As the Spanish force approached Cuzco, Pizarro sent his brother Hernando and...
by HernandoPizarro. The Incas hoped to restore their empire (1438–1533) with this action, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. Francisco Pizarro, Hernando's...
busts of her, her daughter Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui, Francisco Pizarro and her daughter's husband, HernandoPizarro. She was the daughter of the Sapa Inca...
forces of Inca emperor Manco Inca and a Spanish expedition led by HernandoPizarro during the Spanish conquest of Peru. A former ally of the Spaniards...
1538 – HernandoPizarro executes Diego de Almagro 1539 – Gonzalo Pizarro invades and sacks Vilcabamba; Manco Inca escapes but Francisco Pizarro executes...
military conflict and decisive confrontation between the forces of Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro against those of rival conquistador Diego de Almagro, on April...
the Spaniards. According to Ferndandez de Oviedo, HernandoPizarro, Juan Pizarro and Gonzalo Pizarro "left no one single women or sister of his [Manco's]...
Francisco Pizarro, who for the first time was designated as a captain. During this expedition, which lasted 14 months, Almagro, Pizarro and Hernando de Luque...
Álvarez de Pineda Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Francisco Pizarro Gonzalo Pizarro Juan PizarroHernándoPizarro Juan Ponce de León Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Hernán...
the Pizarro brothers with allies and the Almagristas under Diego de Almagro, who had seized the former Inca capital upon rescuing HernandoPizarro and...
imprisoned HernandoPizarro and his younger brother, Gonzalo, but aware that Francisco Pizarro was organizing an army to march on Cuzco, he released Hernando in...
daughter by Pizarro with them and she was later legitimized by imperial decree. Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui married her uncle HernandoPizarro in Spain,...
Inca. Manco Inca then joined Almagro and Hernando de Soto in pursuit of Quizquiz.: 38, 40, 46 When Pizarro left Cuzco with Almagro and Manco Inca, for...
of the Inca ruler Atahualpa by a small Spanish force led by Francisco Pizarro, on November 16, 1532. The Spanish killed thousands of Atahualpa's counselors...
from Pizarro. De Almagro was executed in 1538, by HernandoPizarro's orders. In 1541, supporters of Diego Almagro II assassinated Francisco Pizarro in Lima...
the ensuing power struggle. In 1540, second in line of the Pizarro brothers, HernandoPizarro, returned to Spain to defend the question of his and his brothers'...
baptised and married. According to Fernández de Oviedo, HernandoPizarro, Juan Pizarro and Gonzalo Pizarro "left no one single women or sister of his [Manco's]...
Francisco Pizarro from Lima to aid HernandoPizarro. He was granted land at Puerto Viejo, on the coast of Ecuador.) In 1540 Gonzalo Pizarro arrived in...