Túpac Huallpa

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Túpac Huallpa or Huallpa Túpac (original name Auqui Huallpa Tupac) (? - October 1533) was a puppet Inca Emperor of the conquistadors in 1533, during the Spanish conquest of Peru, led by Francisco Pizarro, who was above him. He was the younger brother of Atahualpa and Huascar. After Atahualpa's death, the Spaniards appointed Túpac Huallpa as a puppet-Inca ruler and ensured he was crowned with great recognition and ceremony. All this was done to convince the natives that they were still being ruled by an Inca. Túpac Huallpa and his people did not know that the Spaniards were using him to take control of Peru and steal the gold treasures of his country.

Túpac Huallpa died of smallpox in Jauja in 1533 soon after he was crowned the Inca Emperor by Francisco Pizarro. He was succeeded by another brother, a member of a lower nobility class, named Manco Inca Yupanqui.

He was the father of four children:

Francisco Huallpa Túpac Yupanqui
Beatriz Túpac Yupanqui, married to Pedro Álvarez de Holguín de Ulloa, conquistador (1490 - 1542), and had issue (ancestors of Máxima Zorreguieta y Cerruti)
Isabel Suárez Chimpu Ocllo, married to Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas (died 1559), and had issue (parents of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega). After widowed, she married again to Juan de Pedroche and had two daughters, Ana Ruíz, married to her cousin Martín de Bustinza, and had issue, and Luisa de Herrera, married to Pedro Márquez de Galeoto (the parents of Alonso Márquez de Figueroa).
Leonor Yupanqui, married to Juan Ortiz de Zárate, and had issue