Quiz quiz

Quiz quiz, to the left of the arrested Huáscar (1532)

Quizquiz also Quisquis ( Quechua : Kiskis ) († 1535 ) was one of the three generals of the Inca ruler Atahualpa .

Life

After Chalcuchímac and next to Rumiñahui, Quizquiz was one of Atahualpa's main military leaders. It was he who captured the last legitimate Inca , Huáscar , on the banks of the Apurímac in April 1532 for Atahualpa in the decisive battle at Chontacaxas . He then took the capital Cusco , had a large part of the Inca nobility killed there and took over the governorship of the city. There he only had a relatively small contingent of troops just to defend the city.

At the same time as Quizquiz 'victory over Huáscar, the Spaniards landed on the coast under Francisco Pizarro . In November, Pizarro captured Atahualpa in a surprise blow and had him killed months later. In September 1533 he moved further south to take Cusco. Quizquiz tried to militarily stop the advance of the Spaniards, but failed at Vilcaconga , whereupon he united his own forces with the troops of the (captured by the Spaniards and later executed) Chalcuchímac and withdrew to Cusco. After only a few and insignificant skirmishes with the Spaniards, he gave up the capital on November 15, 1533 and thus enabled Pizarro to triumphantly invade the city .

Quizquiz tried to take the town of Jauja , where the Spanish had set up a small garrison, but failed because the local Huanca supported the Spanish. There was another battle at Maraycalla in 1534, with the conquistadors , supported by Manco , whom they had appointed as the new Inca ruler , inflicted a definite defeat.

Quizquiz withdrew from the south to lead the fight against the Spaniards from the north. When his troops approached their native Quito after months of marching, they found that the Spanish under Belalcázar had taken Quito. The soldiers were demoralized and tired of the battle, but Quizquiz refused to give up. Thereupon he was slain by mutinous officers.

See also

• Spanish conquest of Peru

literature

• Wilfried Westphal: Enigmatic Inca. Bindlach 1998, pp. 137, 160, 162
• John Hemming: The Conquest of the Incas. Mariner, Boston 2012, ISBN 978-0-15-602826-4 .