Francisco Pizarro
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Francisco Pizarro González, marqués de los Atabillos (1471[1] – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador. Today, he is known as the conqueror of the Inca Empire. He also founded Lima, La Ciudad de los Reyes, capital of Peru. Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain. He was an illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) who as colonel of infantry served in the Italian campaigns under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, and in Navarre, with some distinction. His mother was Francisca González Mateos, a woman of slender means from Trujillo. Through his father, Francisco was second cousin to Hernán Cortés, the famed conquistador of Mexico.
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- ↑ People do not agree on the date when he was born. Some people say it was 1471,others say it was probably between 1475 and 1478, still others don't know. As he was an illegiitimate child, it is probably hard to tell, as there are few sources available.
