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Gonzalo Pizarro (?-1548) "Who told you to talk like that to the King's corregidor? Don't you know what sort of men we Spaniards are? By the King's life, if you don't shut up I'll catch you and play games with you and your friends that you'll remember all your lives. I swear if you don't keep quiet I'll slit you open, alive, and make little pieces of you!" (Gonzalo Pizarro to Villac Umu, when rebuked for stealing Manco's wife - 1535). "Look here, I am to be Governor because we would trust no one else, not even my brother Hernando Pizarro. I do not care a jot for my brother Hernando or my nephews and nieces... I must die governing! There is nothing more to be said." (Gonzalo Pizarro on his rebellion against the King - 1545). "I cannot think of marriage at present: I am wedded to my lances and horses". (Gonzalo Pizarro - 1545). Gonzalo Pizarro was far less restrained towards the natives and the Inca than his older brothers Francisco and Hernando. Gonzalo led the abuse of Manco Inca in 1535, provoking the rebellion that besieged him in Cuzco for over a year. He developed a passion for Manco's wife, Cura Ocllo, and stole her from him by force. Gonzalo was imprisoned when Almagro captured Cuzco but managed to escape and re-join Francisco Pizarro in Lima. He eventually became Governor of Quito and led an expedition deep into the Amazon in 1540 to search for the fabled city of El Dorado. He led the rebellion against the Spanish crown in 1545, ostensibly against the imposition of the New Laws. Although he ruled Peru for some years, he was eventually defeated by Pedro de la Gasca in 1548 and executed. |
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