Ecuador -- History -- To 1809; Peru -- History -- 1548-1820; Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548; Pizarro, Gonzalo, -1548
[61] As many as 25 mounted men deserted the Viceroy and rode out of
Lima in the night. These were Baltasar de Castilla, Lorenzo Sebastian
and Baltasar de Castilla were the brother and son of the Conde de
Gomera. The family was closely connected with the Canary Islands by
the marriage of Don Diego Ayala y Herrera with Inez, daughter and
princess of Fernan Perasa, Lord of the Canary Islands. Their grandson
Guillen Perasa de Ayala was created Count of Gomera by Charles V. He
married Maria de Castilla and these younger sons used the surname of
Castilla. Sebastian, the youngest, was the murderer of Hinojosa and
was soon afterwards murdered, in his turn, by his own men. Baltasar
joined the Almagro party, after the assassination of Pizarro, and was
on that side at the battle of Chupas, Sept. 15, Mexia, Rodrigo de
Salazar el Corcovedo, Francisco de Escobedo, Francisco de Carbajal,
Pedro Martin de Sicilia (or de Don Benito), and Diego and Jeronimo
de Carbajal, nephews of the Factor. Salazar was the man who had
apprehended the younger Almagro at Cuzco. They seized some papers in
charge of the priest Loaysa, whom they overtook. These letters made
it clear that there was correspondence with the Viceroy and treachery
in the camp of Gonzalo Pizarro. It was thought necessary to make
examples of the traitors. Gaspar de Rojas, Felipe Gutierrez, and a
Galician named Arias de Maldonado were at Guamanga. Pedro de Puelles,
by Gonzalo’s order, arrested and beheaded them. Gaspar Rodriguez de
Camporedondo was a double-dyed traitor. He was in Gonzalo’s camp at
the head of 200 pikemen. Carbajal arrested him and he was beheaded
without delay.
1542. With Gonzalo at Añaquito, and sent with Hinojosa to Panama.
A captain of infantry at Sacsahuana, April 9, 1548. Received the
_repartimiento_ of Parinocochas. He gave the supper at Cuzco when his
niece married Alonso de Loaysa, Nov. 13, 1553. Giron broke in and
killed one or two of the supper party. He put Castilla to death for
trying to escape to Lima. Castilla was a chief citizen of Cuzco, and
there are descendants.
[62] His mad resolution was to sack Lima and retreat to Truxillo,
sending all the women and children by sea and the men by land.
[63] The Viceroy had assembled 400 men to defend his house. The Judges
were frightened and shut themselves up in the lodgings of Cepeda.
Then one Francisco de Escobar said, “Gentlemen, let us come out and
die fighting like men, rather than shut ourselves up like chickens.”
So they came out and, marching to the square, were joined by many
citizens as they went. Then things fell out as the Bishop describes.
[64] San Lorenzo.
[65] Party of Almagro.
[66] Huacho.
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