Gonzalo Pizarro

✶January 1, 1502

†April 10, 1548

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Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso was a Spanish conquistador. He was the younger paternal half 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 (1446–1522), who, as an infantry colonel, served under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba during the Italian Wars. He was also the younger paternal half brother of Hernándo Pizarro y de Vargas and the older full brother of Juan Pizarro y Alonso.

Spanish conquistador, younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro

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Biography from the article Gonzalo Pizarro on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.