Diego Almagro II

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Diego de Almagro II (1520 – September 16, 1542), called El Mozo (the lad), was the assassin of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. El Mozo, named Diego de Almagro after his father, was the son of the (in)famous Diego de Almagro and a native Panama Indian. He accompanied his father on the expedition to Peru in 1531, was located in the north of the Inca Empire together with his father and about 100 Spanish soldiers while Francisco Pizarro, the leader of the expedition, went south, capturing the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the Battle of Cajamarca, mustering 80,000 with only 167 Spaniards. El Mozo and his father Diego went to Cajamarca in 1533, received no gold for the capture and pressed to get the Inca executed, which finally happened on August 29. Almagro then accompanied Pizarro to Cuzco and conquered the Inca capital. He then went south in 1535 while Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings, today Lima). In 1536, Manco Inca besieged Cuzco with 100,000 Inca warriors. Almagro returned from the south and drove them away, and seized power in Cuzco in 1537, but was defeated in 1538 in the Battle of Las Salinas and was beheaded. El Mozo swore to avenge his father and three years later, on June 26, 1541, he managed to get into Pizarro's palace in Lima and shot him with a pistol. Pizarro died the same day and El Mozo fled to Cuzco. He was eventually captured on September 16, 1542 and executed at the city square after a brief duel and trial.