Paullu Inca

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Don Cristóbal Paullu Inca, son of Huayna Cápac .

Paullu Inca Túpac or Pawllu Inka Tupaq (* around 1510, according to other sources 1518 in Cusco ; † 1549, according to other sources 1550 ibid) was an Inca prince at the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru . He was a son of the Inca king ( sapa inka ) Huayna Cápac and his concubine Añas Colque and thus a brother or half-brother of Huayna Cápac's successors Huáscar , Atahualpa , Túpac Huallpa and Manco Cápac .

At the beginning of Manco Cápac's reign, whom Francisco Pizarro had installed as a vassal ruler after the conquest of Cusco , Paullu Inca was one of his confidants. On the orders of his brother he accompanied the Spaniard Diego de Almagro on his expedition to the south of Peru on July 3, 1535, together with the "Villac Umu", the high sun priest and brother Manco Cápacs .

When Manco Cápac began his nationwide uprising against the Spaniards in 1536 , he sided with Almagro and is likely to have thwarted Almagro's exploratory efforts with Manco Cápac when Almagro returned from Chile. Almagro demanded from Paullu, as a proof of his loyalty, that he should bring a fled Spaniard back dead or alive, which Paullu promptly did. Thereupon Almagro “crowned” Paullu Inca as Sapa Inca, consciously exceeding his competencies.

At the Battle of Las Salinas in 1537 he observed the carnage among the Spaniards and after Almagro's defeat tried to do business with Hernando Pizarro . Several times in the course of the power struggle between the “Almagrists” and the “Pizarrists” he changed sides. After the victory of the Pizarrists in 1539, he actively supported Gonzalo Pizarro in suppressing Manco's insurrection movement in what is now Bolivia. Even during the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro against the Spanish crown (1544-1548) and after its suppression, he was always on the side of whoever had power.

In 1543 he was baptized in the name of Cristóbal. His sons Carlos, Alonso, Francisco and Fernando grew up in the colonial Spanish milieu. The eldest, Carlos even became encomendero and regidor (councilor) of Cusco and married a noble Spanish lady, Doña María de Esquivel.

Individual evidence

  1. Kirkpatrick, FA: "The Spanish Conquistadors", Goldmanns Yellow Pocket Books 859, Munich, p. 137
  2. Engl, Liselotte and Theodor: “Lust an der Geschichte - Die Eroberung Perus”, Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-492-11318-4 , p. 219
  3. Kirkpatrick, FA: "The Spanish Conquistadors", Goldmanns Yellow Pocket Books 859, Munich, p. 144
  4. Engl, Liselotte and Theodor: "Lust an der Geschichte - Die Eroberung Perus", Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-492-11318-4 , p. 228
  5. Engl, Liselotte and Theodor: “Lust an der Geschichte - Die Eroberung Perus”, Munich, 1991, ISBN 3-492-11318-4 , p. 219
  6. ^ A b John Hemming: The conquest of the Incas. Macmillan, 1993, ISBN 0-333-10683-0 , pp. 173-183
  7. Berthold Riese: Die Inka CH Beck, 2016, ISBN 978-3406-69891-0 , p. 103
  8. ^ John Hemming: The conquest of the Incas. Macmillan, 1993, ISBN 0-333-10683-0 , p. 328