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Coya Asarpay or Azarpay (died 1533), was a princess and queen consort of the Inca Empire by marriage to her brother, the Sapa Inca Atahualpa (r 1532-1533).
Asarpay was the daughter of the Inca Huayna Capac. She was the "First Princess of the Empire", and her sisters were Kispe Sisa, Kura Okllu, Marca Chimbo, Pachacuti Yamqui, Miro, Kusi Warkay, Francisca Coya[1][2] and others.[3]:112[4]: 112, 118
She married her brother, the succeeding Inca, in accordance with ancient custom.
Her husband was executed in 1533 by the Spaniards accused of incest and idolatry, charges which would apply also to her. Pedro Pizarro reports, that she was executed by garroting on the order of Francisco Pizarro.[5]
References
- ^ Costales, Piedad Peñaherrera de; Costales Samaniego, Alfredo; Jurado Noboa, Fernando (1982). "Los señores naturales de la tierra : Las Coyas y Pallas del Tahuantinsuyo". Cultura y Patrimonio (in Spanish).
- ^ Zapata-Jaramillo, Juan G. "Descendientes del Emperador Inca Pachacútec" – via www.academia.edu.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Niles, Susan A. (1999). The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9781587292941.
- ^ de Gamboa, P.S., 2015, History of the Incas, Lexington, ISBN 9781463688653
- ^ Sharon Macdonald, Pat Holden, Shirley Ardener: Images of Women in Peace and War: Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives, p 64
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