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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gonzalo Pizarro has received more than 229,499 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gonzalo Pizarro is the 99th most popular explorer (down from 94th in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 322nd 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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  • 2.30

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 99 out of 498. Before him are Robert FitzRoy, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Carsten Niebuhr, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Calamity Jane, and Ferdinand Columbus. After him are Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Bartholomew Columbus, Enrique of Malacca, Juan de la Cosa, Michael Rockefeller, and Mary Kingsley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 9. Before him are Mikael Agricola, Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Renée of France, Jacopo Bassano, Aloysius Lilius, and François Clouet. After him are Gracia Mendes Nasi, Elena Glinskaya, Túpac Huallpa, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Oda Nobuhide, and Francesco de' Rossi. Among people deceased in 1548, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 3. Before him are Catherine Parr, and Sigismund I the Old. After him are Juan Diego, Juan de Zumárraga, Girolamo Savoldo, João de Castro, Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, and Pascual de Andagoya.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 362 out of 3,355. Before him are Garcilaso de la Vega (1501), Ruy González de Clavijo (1400), José Sanjurjo (1872), Joseph Karo (1488), Fernando Arrabal (1932), and Ferdinand Columbus (1488). After him are Juana Enríquez (1425), José María Aznar (1953), Fernando Torres (1984), Bernardino de Sahagún (1499), Ramiro I of Aragon (1008), and Achila II (695).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro ranks 19. Before him are Juan Díaz de Solís (1470), Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488), Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542), Benjamin of Tudela (1130), Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441), and Ferdinand Columbus (1488). After him are Juan de la Cosa (1460), Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492), Pánfilo de Narváez (1478), Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510), Pedro de Mendoza (1487), and Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1500).

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