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Gonzalo Pizarro

1510 - 1548

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Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso ([gonˈθalo piˈθaro]; 1510 – 10 April 1548) was a Spanish conquistador. He was the younger paternal half brother of Francisco Pizarro, who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Pizarro was the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (1446–1522), who, as an infantry colonel, served under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba during the Italian Wars. He was also the younger paternal half brother of Hernándo Pizarro y de Vargas and the older paternal full brother of Juan Pizarro y Alonso. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gonzalo Pizarro is the 111th most popular explorer (down from 99th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Spain (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Spanish Explorer.

Gonzalo Pizarro is most famous for being the brother of Francisco Pizarro and the brother-in-law of Hernando Pizarro. He was a Spanish conquistador who was one of the leaders of the Spanish conquest of Peru.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 111 out of 498. Before him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Frederick de Houtman, Bartholomew Columbus, João Gonçalves Zarco, Heinrich Barth, and Ferdinand Columbus. After him are Fernão Mendes Pinto, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Carsten Niebuhr, Thomas Cavendish, Sacagawea, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 13. Before him are Renée of France, François Clouet, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Aloysius Lilius, Gracia Mendes Nasi, and Túpac Huallpa. After him are Elena Glinskaya, Oda Nobuhide, Antonio de Cabezón, Roy Mata, Jean Goujon, and Francesco de' Rossi. Among people deceased in 1548, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 4. Before him are Catherine Parr, Sigismund I the Old, and Juan Diego. After him are Juan de Zumárraga, Girolamo Savoldo, Pascual de Andagoya, João de Castro, and Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 375 out of 3,355. Before him are Hisham II (965), Juana Enríquez (1425), Yusuf I of Granada (1318), Juan Negrín (1892), Fernando Torres (1984), and Ferdinand Columbus (1488). After him are Gérard Encausse (1865), Antipope Clement VIII (1370), David Villa (1981), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), Luis Ramírez de Lucena (1475), and Joseph Calasanz (1556).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 19. Before him are Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542), Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460), Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488), Benjamin of Tudela (1130), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1500), and Ferdinand Columbus (1488). After him are Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492), Juan de la Cosa (1460), Lope de Aguirre (1518), Pedro de Mendoza (1487), and Pánfilo de Narváez (1478).

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