Umina Berzeviczy

Umina Berzeviczy (* 1762 ; † unknown) was allegedly a lover of José Gabriel Condorcanqui , who declared himself the Inca king Túpac Amaru II . The uprising he instigated was the first serious revolt of the indigenous population against the Spanish colonial rulers in two centuries. After the unsuccessful siege of Cusco and betrayal by European comrades-in-arms, Tupaq Amaru II was captured by the Spaniards in 1781, sentenced and quartered in the Plaza de Armas in Cusco , where his alleged grandfather had already been beheaded.

Umina Berzeviczy was the daughter of the Polish adventurer Sebastian Berzeviczy († 1798), who went to Peru in the 18th century , and the Inca princess Umina Atawallpa († 1762), who died giving birth to her daughter and was named after Umina Berzeviczy.

After Túpac Amaru II was executed and the resistance to colonial rule came to a standstill, she fled with her only son Antonio Túpac Amaru († 1877) to Poland, where she found refuge in the ancestral home of her Polish father near Niedzica . She was killed and buried there (presumably by Spanish spies ). Her son was adopted by Wacław Benesz-Berzeviczy on June 21, 1797 as Anton Benesz in the presence of envoys from the Inca government in exile and married Jagiella. They had two sons, Ernest and Wilhelm, and two daughters. The best- known descendant is Andrzej Benesz , Vice-President of the Polish parliament Sejm , who died in an unsolved car accident in 1976.

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• William Darrach Halsey and Louis Shores: Collier's Encyclopedia . Volume 12. Crowell-Collier, New York 1997, pp. 550-553, 674.
• Bernhard Hill: The Curse of the Incas . In: The time . Hamburg, No. 23, May 28, 1998, p. 60
• Meyer's Large Pocket Lexicon . Volume 22. BI-Taschenbuchverlag, Mannheim 1987, ISBN 3-411-11228-X , p. 276
• Terra X , episode 67, a film by Krysztof Lang, Forgotten Stories about America, Death Code from Peru, The Curse of Inca Gold.

Web links

• Article The Curse of the Incas in Time