Cuxirimay Ocllo (born before 1532 - d. ''after'' 1576) also known as Doña Angelina Yupanqui, was a princess and consort 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 cousin, 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 ...

Atahualpa Atahualpa (), also Atawallpa (Quechua), Atabalica, Atahuallpa, Atabalipa (c. 1502 – 26-29 July 1533) was the last Inca Emperor. After defeating his brother, Atahualpa became very briefly the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Inca Empir ...

(r 1532-1533). She was born to Yamque Yupangue and Paccha Duchicela. She was selected by her uncle

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 ...

to become one of the consorts of his son, prince

, because she was Atahualpa's cousin. She was not the only consort of Atahualpa, who was also married to

Coya Asarpay Coya Asarpay or Azarpay (died 1533), was a princess and queen consort of the Inca Empire by marriage to her brother, the Sapa Inca Atahualpa (r 1532-1533). Asarpay was the daughter of the Inca Huayna Capac. She was the "First Princess of the Empir ...

, 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 Spanish. He was succeeded by

Manco Inca Yupanqui Manco Inca Yupanqui ( 1515 – c. 1544) (''Manqu Inka Yupanki'' in Quechua) was the founder and monarch (Sapa Inca) of the independent Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba, although he was originally a puppet Inca Emperor installed by the Spaniards. H ...

, who was basically a prisoner of the Spanish. 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 baptised and married. According to Ferndandez de Oviedo,

Hernando Pizarro Hernando Pizarro y de Vargas (; born between 1501 and 1508, died 1578) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the Pizarro brothers who ruled over Peru. Hernando was born in Trujillo, (Extremadura), Spain, son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodr ...

, Juan Pizarro and

Gonzalo Pizarro Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso (; 1510 – April 10, 1548) was a Spanish conquistador and younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Inca Empire. Bastard son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) (14 ...

"left no one single women or sister of his anco'sunviolated", and had taken the Inca princesses as concubines. The abduction and rape of queen

Cura Ocllo Cura Ocllo (died 1539) was an Inca queen (''Coya''), the wife and sister of Manco Inca Yupanqui,Titu Cusi Yupanqui, 2005, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, puppet and later remnant ruler of the Inca ...

also happened during this period. Cuxirimay Ocllo herself was made the concubine of

Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro González, Marquess of the Atabillos (; ; – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru. Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro chose ...

. She was converted to Catholicism, baptised and given the name Angelina Yupanqui. She lived with Pizarro in Lima between 1538 and 1541. She had two sons with Pizarro, Francisco Pizarro (1539-) and Juan Pizarro (1540-). After the death of Francisco Pizarro, she married

Juan de Betanzos Juan Diez de Betanzos (b. Betanzos, Spain 1510 – d. Cusco, Peru March 1, 1576) wrote one of the most important sources on the conquest of the Incan civilization, Narrative of the Incas.Juan de Betanzos, ''Narrative of the Incas,'' ed. Dana B ...

. Her last marriage is described as a happy one, and the couple lived together in Cuzco. Juan de Betanzos learned

quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **So ...

, and wrote the ''Narrative of the Incas'' with her as a source.
Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
' 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

References

* Martín Rubio, María del Carmen: Juan de Betanzos: El gran cronista del Imperio Inca. Anales del Museo de América. N° 7. 1999 - 111-124 p. ISSN 1133-8741, ISSN 2340-5724 * https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/94209/angelina-anas-yupanqui *
Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American
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