Gonzalo pizarro y francisco de orellana biography

Spanish conquistador (1510–1548)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pizarro and the second or maternal family name is Alonso.

Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso ([gonˈθalopiˈθaro]; 1510 – 10 April 1548) 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 paternal full brother of Juan Pizarro y Alonso.

Military career

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.^[1]: 136 Gonzalo was also the brother of Hern