Coya Asarpay or Azarpay (died 1533), was a princess and queen consort of the

Inca Empire The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (, ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The History of the Incas, Inca ...

by marriage to her brother, the

Sapa Inca The Sapa Inca (from ; ) was the monarch of the Inca Empire (''Tawantinsuyu'' "the region of the four rovinces), as well as ruler of the earlier Kingdom of Cusco and the later Neo-Inca State at Vilcabamba, Peru, Vilcabamba. While the origins ...

Atahualpa Atahualpa (), also Atawallpa or Ataw Wallpa ( Quechua) ( 150226 July 1533), was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in July of the following year, as part of the Spanish conquest of the In ...

(r. 1532–1533). Asarpay was the daughter of the Inca

Huayna Capac Huayna Capac (; Cuzco Quechua: ''Wayna Qhapaq'' ) (before 14931527) was the third Sapa Inca of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca Empire. He was the son of and successor to Túpac Inca Yupanqui,Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro; 2015, originally published in Sp ...

. She married her brother, the succeeding Inca, in accordance with ancient custom. She was the "First Princess of the Empire", and her sisters included Kispe Sisa, Kura Okllu, Marca Chimbo, Pachacuti Yamqui, Miro, Kusi Warkay, Francisca Coya and others.^:112de Gamboa, P.S., 2015, History of the Incas, Lexington, Her husband was executed in 1533 by the Spaniards, who accused him of incest and idolatry, charges which would apply also to her. At one point, according to Pedro Pizarro, the Spanish treasurer, Navarro, asked Fernando Pizarro for permission to Azarpay and force her to be his wife. Hearing this, Azarpay escaped to Carajima. Later, she was recaptured, and brought to the house of Fernando Pizarro in Lima. Pedro Pizarro states that shortly thereafter Incas besieged the city, and Fernando Pizarro believed that they had been told to do so by Azarpay, and that killing her would make it more likely they would lift the siege. She was executed by garroting on the order of

Francisco Pizarro Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos (; ; – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish ''conquistador'', best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Born in Trujillo, Cáceres, Trujillo, Spain, to a poor fam ...

.Sharon Macdonald, Pat Holden, Shirley Ardener: Images of Women in Peace and War: Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives, p 64

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Asarpay, Coya Inca royal consorts 16th-century births 1533 deaths 16th-century indigenous people of the Americas 16th-century indigenous women of the Americas Murdered royalty Spanish colonization of the Americas Indigenous people of the Andes People executed by strangulation People murdered in 1533