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    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...
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    Extremadura, Spain. He was the illegitimate son of infantry colonel Gonzalo Pizarro (1446–1522) and Francisca González, a woman of poor means. His date...
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  • Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) (1446–1522) – who as colonel of infantry served in the Italian campaigns under Gonzalo Fernández...
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  • Francisco, Gonzalo and Hernando Pizarro for the conquest of Peru in 1532.: 136  Juan Pizarro was the illegitimate son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez...
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  • of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar and María Alonso Francisco Pizarro (d. 1541) illegitimate son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez...
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    Francisco Pizarro from Lima to aid Hernando Pizarro. He was granted land at Puerto Viejo, on the coast of Ecuador.) In 1540 Gonzalo Pizarro arrived in...
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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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    Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, was first cousin of Pizarro's father Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodriguez.) Through his father, Hernán was related to Nicolás de...
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    The Battle of Jaquijahuana was fought between the forces of Gonzalo Pizarro and Pedro de la Gasca, on April 9, 1548, during the Revolt of the Encomenderos [es]...
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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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    – Hernando Pizarro executes Diego de Almagro 1539 – Gonzalo Pizarro invades and sacks Vilcabamba; Manco Inca escapes but Francisco Pizarro executes Manco's...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Valdés (1478–1557), Castilian writer and historian Gonzalo Pizarro (1502–1548), Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509–1579), Spanish explorer...
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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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  • of Gonzalo Pizarro, the men, clad in half armor, pull cannons down narrow mountain paths and through dense, muddy jungle. On New Year's Eve Pizarro orders...
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  • Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (1446–1522) was a Spanish Captain from the region of Extremadura who participated in several campaigns in Italy...
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  • The Pizarro brothers, siblings of Francisco Pizarro who gained fame as Spanish conquistadors Gonzalo Pizarro (1510–1548), co-governor of Peru, led disastrous...
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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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    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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  • governor of New Castile (Peru) following the death of his brother, Gonzalo Pizarro pressed claims to be recognized as the ruler of the land he and his...
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  • Pineda Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Francisco Pizarro Gonzalo Pizarro Juan Pizarro Hernándo Pizarro Juan Ponce de León Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Hernán Pérez de...
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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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    defeated and captured.: 264  Afterwards Valdivia accompanied Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro to conquer both the province of Collao and las Charcas in High Peru...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Quizquiz. When Pizarro left Cuzco with Almagro and Manco Inca, for Jauja in pursuit of Quizquiz, Francisco left his younger brothers Gonzalo Pizarro and Juan...
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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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