Pedro Pizarro

Pedro Pizarro ( * 1515 in Toledo; ? † 1587 () in Arequipa ) was a Spanish Conquistador. He is best known as an eyewitness and chronicler of the conquest of Peru.

The parents of Pedro Pizarro, Pizarro and Luisa Martín Méndez came from Trujillo, the hometown of the Pizarro brothers, with whom he was related.

When Francisco Pizarro 1429/30 was in Spain, he joined this and followed him as a page in the New World. He witnessed the capture of the Inca in the Battle of Cajamarca and survived the siege of Cuzco.

At the later confrontation between the conquistadors he stood on the side of his family, and fought in the Battle of Las Salinas ( 1538) against the followers of Almagro. In the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro he stood on the side of the crown. Only the intercession of Francisco de Carvajal (1464-1548) he owed it that Gonzalo not had him executed. Also at the Battle of Jaquijahuana ( 1548), he participated on the side of the king.

In 1555 he settled in Arequipa. There he wrote his Chronicle of the Conquest of Peru, the Relación del descubrimiento y conquista de los reinos del Perú, which he completed in 1571. In 1587, according to other sources in 1602, he died. He had ten children from his marriage with Maria Cornejo de Simancas and an illegitimate daughter.