Who benefited from Ransom of Atahualpa?
Shows who gained or lost, and who disputes a study that says so, in the words of whoever says it.
Not that anyone caused it.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Each account
One account recorded. Others may exist.
According to Francisco de Xerez
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Crown of Castile
benefited from
Primary record
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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.
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.
Lost. No account in our sources says who lost.
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
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.
How this answer is built
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