The Coya Coya Cusirimay (

floruit ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1493), was a princess and queen consort, ''Coya'', of the

Inca Empire The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, (Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The admin ...

by marriage to her brother, the

Sapa Inca The Sapa Inca (from Quechua ''Sapa Inka'' "the only Inca") was the monarch of the Inca Empire (''Tawantinsuyu''), as well as ruler of the earlier Kingdom of Cusco and the later Neo-Inca State. While the origins of the position are mythical and o ...

Huayna Capac Huayna Capac (with many alternative transliterations; 1464/1468–1524) was the third Sapan Inka of the Inca Empire, born in Tumipampa sixth of the Hanan dynasty, and eleventh of the Inca civilization. Subjects commonly approached Sapa Inkas addi ...

(r 1493-1527). She was said to be responsible for the relief and well being of her people after natural disasters struck. She was second in command to the emperor. Coya Cusirimay was the daughter of the Inca

Topa Inca Yupanqui Topa Inca Yupanqui or Túpac Inca Yupanqui ( qu, 'Tupaq Inka Yupanki'), translated as "noble Inca accountant," (c. 1441–c. 1493) was the tenth Sapa Inca (1471–93) of the Inca Empire, fifth of the Hanan dynasty. His father was Pachacuti, and h ...

and

Mama Ocllo Coya The Qoya, Coya Mama Ocllo Coya or only Mama Ocllo (Mama Uqllu ''iskay ñiqin'', floruit, fl 1493), was a princess and queen consort, ''Coya'', of the Inca Empire by marriage to her younger brother, the Sapa Inca Topa Inca Yupanqui (r. 1471–1493). ...

, and the full sister of Huayna Capac. After his succession to the throne in 1493, she married her brother in accordance with custom. She thereby became the 11th coya of the Inca Empire. Coya Cusirimay had no sons, and reportedly died early on in the reign of her spouse.

References

General references

* Burr Cartwright Brundage: Empire of the Inca * Susan A. Niles: The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire * Reiner Tom Zuidema: The Ceque System of Cuzco: The Social Organization of the Capital of the Inca {{DEFAULTSORT:Cusirimay, Coya Inca royal consorts 15th-century births 15th-century indigenous people of the Americas 15th-century women Spanish colonization of the Americas Indigenous people of the Andes Year of death unknown