Cuxirimay Ocllo
Princess and queen consort of the Inca Empire
About Cuxirimay Ocllo
Lived 1501 – 1599 (aged 97–98).
Cuxirimay Ocllo (Classical Quechua: Kuši Rimay Uqllu) (born before 1532–d. after 1576), also known as Doña Angelina Yupanqui, was a princess and consort of the Inca Empire by marriage to her cousin, the Sapa Inca Atahualpa (r. 1532–1533).
She played a discreet but important political role in the environment of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, first as wife of Atahualpa and later by becoming a concubine to Francisco Pizarro. Historian Néstor Taboada describes her as "mysterious, seductive, impudent, deceptive, tough and independent" and compared her role to that of La Malinche during the conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Biography She was born to Yamque Yupangue and Paccha Duchicela. She was selected by her uncle Huayna Capac to become one of the consorts of his son, prince Atahualpa, because she was Atahualpa's cousin. She was not the only consort of Atahualpa, who was also married to Coya Asarpay, who became his sister-queen. Cuxirimay Ocllo was not queen but had the title of ñusta or secondary consort.
Her spouse became Inca in 1532. In 1533, Atahualpa was deposed and executed by the Spaniards. He was succeeded by Manco Inca Yupanqui, who was basically a prisoner of the Spaniards. During this time period, the Spaniards abducted and raped many women in Cuzco, including princesses, noblewomen, priestesses, and the aclla, many of which they kept as concubines and later baptized and married. According to Fernández de Oviedo, Hernando Pizarro, Juan Pizarro and Gonzalo Pizarro "left no one single women or sister of his [Manco's] unviolated", and had taken the Inca princesses as concubines. She is last noted to be alive in 1576.
Issue She had six children with Atahualpa: Francisco Tupac Atauchi María Isabella Atabalipa Yupanqui Felipe Atabalipa Yupanqui Isabel Atahuallpa Maria Yupanqui Puca Cisa
Two with Pizarro: Francisco Pizarro Yupanqui Juan Pizarro Yupanqui
And one daughter with Juan de Betanzos: María de Betanzos Yupanqui
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princess and queen consort of the Inca Empire
When was Cuxirimay Ocllo born?
Cuxirimay Ocllo was born in 1501 in Cusco Department.
When did Cuxirimay Ocllo die?
Cuxirimay Ocllo died in 1599.
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