Gonzalo pizarro biography

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Biography of Gonzalo Pizarro

Location of birth:

Gonzalo Pizarro was born in in Trujillo (Cáceres – Spain)

Location of death:

Gonzalo Pizarro died on April 10, in Cuzco, Peru.

Positions held:

– Governor of Quito from to

– Lieutenant governor general of Cuzco in

– Governor of Peru from to

– Encomendero en Charcas (Alto Perú – presentBolivia)

Most relevant facts starring Gonzalo Pizarro:

– He arrived in Peru in by the hand of his older brother Francisco Pizarro participating in all the most important events of the conquest of Peru.

– He was one of the Spaniards besieged in the Cuzco in by Manco Inca.

– He organized in the expedition in search of the Country of Cinnamon in which Francisco de Orellana would discover the Rio Grande (Amazonas river) and travel it to its mouth. Gonzalo had stayed in the Santa Ana River (Coca River) hoping that Orellana would come back with food and help.

– He actively participated in the civil wars between Spaniards against the Almagrists who won the Battle of the Salinas.

– He retired to his charge from Charcas in search of silver and gold mines.

– In his first viceroy, Blasco Núñez de Vela, arrived in Peru, bringing with him the New Laws of the Indies, which dealt a heavy blow to the “encomenderos” and “conquistadores”. Gonzalo was chosen by them to organize resistance to the enforcement of these laws. He went to Cuzco where he was proclaimed General Produrator of Peru.

– In Pizarro entered Lima triumphant, after the expulsion of the viceroy by the Royal Court of Lima, which supported the rebels, and appointed him governor of Peru.

– Viceroy Ñúñez de Vela returned to try to defeat Pizarro but was again defeated and executed on the battlefield. In this way Pizarro obtained absolute power in Peru.

– King Carlos I sent a new president to the Royal Audience of Lima, Pedro de la Gasca, a lawyer, moderate man and negotiator, who without using any kind of violence achieved adherents and many went from the Gonzalist side to the realist side until he was practically alone.

– On April 9, Gonzalo Pizarro was arrested by La Gasca and executed with his captains in the vicinity of Cuzco.