Conquest of the Inca Empire Born in
Trujillo, Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro accompanied his eldest brother, Francisco Pizarro, in his third expedition for the
conquest of Peru in 1530. Gonzalo was also the brother of
Hernando Pizarro and
Juan Pizarro. A lieutenant of his brother Francisco during the conquest, Gonzalo Pizarro was one of the most corrupt, brutal and ruthless conquistadors of the
New World, being far less restrained towards the natives and the Inca than his older brothers. After Inca emperor
Atahualpa was captured in the
Battle of Cajamarca and later executed, the
Pizarro brothers and their followers marched towards the Inca capital of
Cuzco to complete the conquest, capturing the city on 15 November 1533 after a brief
battle with the Inca forces under
Quizquiz holding it after previously defeating the central government and massacring the nobility of Cuzco. Gonzalo, and his brother Juan, were made
regidores of the city on 24 March 1534. According to
Fernández de Oviedo,
Hernando Pizarro,
Juan Pizarro and Gonzalo Pizarro "left no one single woman or sister of his [Manco's] unviolated", and had taken the Inca princesses as concubines. The Spaniards' corrupt rule and disrespectful treatment towards Manco Inca Yupanqui led to large-scale rebellion. by the royal forces on the field of battle, being the last of the Pizarro brothers to die a violent death (with Hernando dying of old age in Spain some three decades later). == In popular culture ==