Event
Ransom of Atahualpa
After his capture Atahualpa offered a room of gold and silver, fearing he would be killed; the metal was gathered from November 1532 to July 1533, and he was killed anyway.
- Dates
- Nov 1532 – Jul 1533
- Place
- Cajamarca
- The Ransom20 scenes
- Who benefited from Ransom of Atahualpa?1 link, 1 account
- How are Ransom of Atahualpa and … connected?
After his capture Atahualpa offered a room of gold and silver, fearing he would be killed; the metal was gathered from November 1532 to July 1533, and he was killed anyway.
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interventions
- Atahualpa Nov 1532 offered a room of gold and silver, fearing he would be killed According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
involved
- Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
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Francisco Pizarro
According to Francisco de Xerez
Primary record
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Xerez adds, in a line the scan garbles, that Pizarro told him to send for the metal and that once it came he need have no fear.
- Cuzco According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
- Cajamarca According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
benefited
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Crown of Castile
According to Francisco de Xerez
Primary record
1
The royal fifth was the Crown's set share of the metal, as Xerez records it. Whether the Crown or Spain gained overall is argued in the other claims on this page and in the story.
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Timeline 2 dates
- Nov 1532 – Jul 1533 Ransom of Atahualpa
- Nov 1532 Atahualpa intervened in Ransom of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez
Proof 1 source
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Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, secretary to Francisco Pizarro (English translation by Clements R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, 1872), Hakluyt Society, London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1872.
Primary record
I will give gold enough to fill a room twenty-two feet long and seventeen wide, up to a white line which is half way up the wall.
Atabaliba feared that the Spaniards would kill him, so he told the Governor, that he would give his captors a great quantity of gold and silver.
Then Atabaliba sent messages to his captains, who were in the city of Cuzco, ordering them to send two thousand Indians laden with gold and silver
the Royal fifth amounted to 262,259 pesos of pure gold. Of the silver there were 51,610 marcs, of which 10,121 marcs of silver formed the Royal fifth.
He undertook to do this in two months.
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