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Francisco Pizarro: Trujillo
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Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Spain, in 1495. He was a farm boy with very little education. Pizarro ran away from home for adventure. When he arrived in the West Indies, the only possessions he had were his sword and his cloak. He wanted to become a conquistador. His bold, clever, and ruthless ways caught the attention of explorers.
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Francisco Pizarro was born at Trujillo in Estremadura. The illegitimate son of a poor hidalgo (small landholder of the petty nobility), he never learned to read and may have earned his keep herding his father's swine. This allegation is often cited by Pizarro's detractors in terms of a comparison with Herná Cortés the better-born conqueror of Mexico. But the destruction wreaked by Cortés upon Aztec civilization was no less far-reaching than Pizarro's impact upon the society of Peru.
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Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain in about 1471 and died in Lima Peru on June 26, 1541. He was the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro, an infantry captain, and Francisca Gonzalez. Francisco never went to school, and never learned to read or write.
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