Spanish conqueror born in Villa de Almagro, Spain, one of the colonizers of Panama (1514) and Peru (1524). The natural son of Elvira Gutiérrez and Juan Montenegro, who because his father did not fulfill the promise of marriage, his mother decided to hide him by sending him to the care of Sancha López del Peral. At the age of five, he was taken in by his father, but his father died shortly thereafter, being taken care of by his maternal uncle, Hernán Gutiérrez, until he was 15 years old. Because of his sad and lonely childhood and uncertain youth, he remained illiterate, although he became an honest, open, generous and energetic man.
With an adventurous spirit he managed to join the Spanish expedition of Pedro Arias de Avila that set out to conquer new lands in the New World. He arrived in America (1514) and participated in the Conquest of Panama. Working with a joint expedition with Francisco Pizarro they started the conquest of Peru (1524), period in which a great rivalry began between them, motivated by the control of the rich regions discoveries. It is important to point out that all the conquering companies of America were financed by their own members and that, eventually, the Spanish State made some contributions, but always in material, never in cash.
With the appointment of Pizarro as Peru's first authority (1531), he asked Spain for permission to separate from his partner, but was refused the request. Still together with Pizarro, he occupied Cuzco (1532), and obtained his appointment to the government of Nova Toledo (1535), ie the treatment of don and a shield of arms. He then organized a disastrous expedition to Chile (1536), where he lost most of his men during the crossing of the Andes, gave up the venture and, back in Peru, allied with MancoCápac II to end it with Pizarro and his brother Alonso. After several struggles and political disputes with the arbitration of the crown, he was finally defeated in the battle of Salinas, where he was arrested, tried and beheaded in Cuzco, by order of Pizarro.
Source: Biographies - Academic Unit of Civil Engineering / UFCG
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