Huascar
Sign in to saveAlso known as Huáscar, Inti Cusi Huallpa Huáscar
Huáscar () (, ) also Guazcar (before 15271532) was Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire from 1527 to 1532. He succeeded his father, Huayna Capac and his brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox during the same year while campaigning near Quito. From 1529 to 1532, Huáscar fought the Inca civil war against his half-brother Atahualpa, who prevailed and captured Huáscar. Shortly thereafter, Atahualpa was captured by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and had Huáscar killed.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Huáscar
- Royalty.image
- Waskhar portrait.jpg
- Royalty.image_size
- 220
- Royalty.caption
- Twilight of Ancient Peru - the glory and decline of the Inca Empire by Lieselotte and Theo Engl (1969), photograph of original portrait located in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.
- Royalty.succession
- Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire
- Royalty.reign
- 1527 – 1532
- Royalty.predecessor
- Huayna CapacNinan Cuyochi (only a few days)
- Royalty.successor
- Atahualpa
- Royalty.spouse
- Chuqui Huipa
- Royalty.issue
- Leonor Curicuillor
- Royalty.dynasty
- Hanan Qusqu
- Royalty.father
- Huayna Capac
- Royalty.birth_date
- Before 1527
- Royalty.birth_place
- Huascarpata, Inca Empire
- Royalty.death_date
- 1532
- Royalty.death_place
- Cusco, Inca Empire
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cusco Department
- Place of birth
- Peru
- Place of death
- Mollebamba District
- Father
- Huayna Capac
- Mother
- Rahua Ocllo
- Sibling
- Ninan Cuyochi
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Sapa Inca
- Languages spoken
- Classical Quechua
- Image
- Brooklyn Museum - Huascar, Thirteenth Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings - overall.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Huascar
- date of birth
- 1490-01-01
- date of death
- 1532-00-00
- cause of death
- execution by drowning
- different from
- Huáscar
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Biography
- See also
- References
Huáscar () (, ) also Guazcar (before 15271532) was Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire from 1527 to 1532. He succeeded his father, Huayna Capac and his brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox during the same year while campaigning near Quito. From 1529 to 1532, Huáscar fought the Inca civil war against his half-brother Atahualpa, who prevailed and captured Huáscar. Shortly thereafter, Atahualpa was captured by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and had Huáscar killed.
== Biography == The origin of his name is uncertain. One story is that Huáscar was named after a huge gold chain that was made to mark the occasion of his birth. "Huasca" is Quechua for "chain". Because his father did not think "chain" was an appropriate name for a prince, he added an r to the end of the name to make "Huáscar". Another story is that his name is from his birthplace, Huascarpata.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huascar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.