Manco Capac II

Manco Capac II , also called Manco INCA or Manco II, is a son of Huayna Capac and the half-brother of Huascar and Atahualpa. It belongs to the nobility of the Cuzco and was thus side of Huascar during the civil war. It is this membership of the clan cuzquénien which decides the Spaniards to choose this prince like new sovereign of the kingdom after the execution of Atahualpa. Manco Capac is crowned in Cuzco according to the habit in the presence of the conquistadors and of the nobility of the kingdom. Alleviated times seem to open even if the Spaniards intend well to keep the control of the kingdom.

Whereas Francisco Pizarro is occupied founding Lima and that Diego de Almagro left to the recheche a rich kingdom to conquer in the south of the continent (1535 - 1536), the brothers of Pizarro remained in Cuzco. The latter humiliate the young person Manco Capac openly and thus wake up a feeling of revolt within the nobility of Cuzco: where did the dignity go of Sapped INCA? In the same way, the daily depredations of the Spaniards ulcerate the population.

Starting from 1536, Manco Capac, benefitting from divisions between the Spaniards and their small number with Cuzco, secretly organizes the first rebellion against the Spanish invaders through all the country. In little time, Manco Capac, which left Cuzco under a religious pretext, returns to the head of an army perfectly equipped of which one estimates the number at approximately thirty thousand warriors. He camps in the strengthened city of Ollantaytambo from where he will direct celebrates it Siège of Cuzco. When the Spaniards see the troops of Manco Capac to the accesses of Cuzco, it is a total surprise: they had not detected anything of the preparations. In their turn, groups of warriors out of weapons coming from all the provinces unite with the army which already encircles the city. More than fifty thousand warriors besiege Cuzco. This bloody seat, which lasted 8 months, failed to lead to a victory: the reinforcements sent of Lima are crushed by the Amerindian tribes which learned how to know their enemies. The Spaniards tracked in all the country are continued until Lima. But the Amerindian army, exhausted by a lack of preparation, is seen obliged to break the head office of Cuzco and to fold up themselves.

While wishing to put an end to the hostilities, Manco INCA wanted in makes propose an alliance with Francisco Pizarro to recover prestige and the authority lost by the camp of the INCA Huascar, but in the absence of the conquistador, the capacity was held by his/her brother Hernando Pizarro who had succeeded his/her brother Juan Pizarro, precisely killed at the time of the seat of the city.

In fact, Manco INCA was captured and imprisoned for acts of rebellion, but it succeeds in fleeing by buying its freedom, by offering a statue of solid gold of real size. While fleeing towards Vilcabamba to find refuge there, it followed the road of Chichero and crossed Ollantaytambo, where it was joined by a troop of Spanish riders. A violent one fights engages, and Manco INCA crushes its enemies.

To Vilcabamba, Manco INCA returned freedom to its troops, then took refuge in the depths of the jungle to continue its fight and to organize resistance Quechua. It restores the rites Incas and organizes a new court. The reign of the INCA thus continues in the province of Vilcabamba. Manco thus initiates an INCA resistance which was going to last until in 1572 with the capture and the execution of Tupac Amaru.

After the end of the war of resistance, the military domination of the Spanish conquistadors develops in Peru. But finally, Manco INCA will not be overcome by the Spaniards: he is assassinated in 1545 by a conquistador, the son of Diego de Almagro which tightened a trap by treason to him, while being made pass for an enemy of the Spaniards who sought refuge with some partisans; accommodated by Manco INCA, they awaited the first opportunity to finish some definitively with him of assassinating it.

After his death, his/her son Sayri Tupac succeeded to him Vilcabamba.

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