Francisco Pizarro

Pizarro married N de Trujillo and had a son named Francisco.

On 26 June 1541, Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in his Lima castle by 20 heavily armed supporters of Diego Almagro II, the son of Diego de Almagro. Pizarro killed two assailants before he was brutally stabbed to death. While dying he designed a cross with his own blood.

Pizarro was born as an illegitimate child in Trujillo, Spain, in 1478. His mother’s name was Francisca González Mateos and his father, Gonzalo Pizarro Rodríguez de Aguilar was an infantry colonel.

Pizarro never got the chance to go to school and grew up as an illiterate animal tender and herder.

Pizarro set sail in Alonzo de Ojeda's expedition to the Gulf of Uraba in the New World in 1509. After its failure he joined the fleet of Martin Fernandez de Enciso in 1513.

In 1514, Pedrarias Davila succeeded Vasco Nunez de Balboa as the governor of Castilla de Oro. Pizarro became a close associate of the governor over the next five years and arrested Balboa on the governor's order. For his loyalty, Pizarro was made the mayor and magistrate of the recently founded Panama City for four years.

In 1524, he teamed up with navigator Diego de Almagro and a priest Hernando de Luque to explore the western South America with 80 men and 40 horses. The first expedition turned out to be a failure as they encountered bad weather, scarcity of food and hostile natives.

In 1526, they went on a second expedition, with two ships carrying 160 men and several horses. On reaching the San Juan river, Almagro headed back to Panama for reinforcements and Bartolome Ruiz, the main pilot kept heading south.

Ruiz captured a raft laden with textiles, ceramic objects and gold and silver pieces. He went back north to Pizarro and told him about the discovery. Rejuvenated with the news and thrilled by the reinforcements, Pizarro went south but did not advance to the mainland as the natives looked dangerous and threatening.