Cusi Huarcay (1531-1586), was a princess and queen consort of the

Inca Empire The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, ( Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The adm ...

by marriage to her brother, the

Sapa Inca The Sapa Inca (from Quechua ''Sapa Inka'' "the only Inca") was the monarch of the Inca Empire (''Tawantinsuyu''), as well as ruler of the earlier Kingdom of Cusco and the later Neo-Inca State. While the origins of the position are mythical an ...

Sayri Túpac Sayri Túpac (c. 1535–1561) was an Inca ruler in Peru. He was a son of siblings Manco Inca Yupanqui and Cura Ocllo.Titu Cusi Yupanqui, 2005, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, After the death of h ...

(r 1545-1561).Hemming, John (1982). La Conquista de los Incas. México: FCE. ISBN 968-16-1110-1. She was born to

Manco Inca Yupanqui Manco Inca Yupanqui ( 1515 – c. 1544) (''Manqu Inka Yupanki'' in Quechua) was the founder and monarch (Sapa Inca) of the independent Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba, although he was originally a puppet Inca Emperor installed by the Spaniards. H ...

and

Cura Ocllo Cura Ocllo (died 1539) was an Inca queen (''Coya''), the wife and sister of Manco Inca Yupanqui,Titu Cusi Yupanqui, 2005, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, puppet and later remnant ruler of the Inca ...

. She was the mother of

Beatriz Clara Coya Beatriz Clara Coya (1556-1600), was a princess ( ñusta) of the Inca Empire. She was born to Sapa Inca Sayri Túpac (r 1545–1561) and Cusi Huarcay. She married Martín García Óñez de Loyola Don Martín García Óñez de Loyola (1549 in A ...

(1556-1600). She is first mentioned when she accompanied her husband-brother Sayri Túpac from Vilcabamba to Spanish controlled territory in 1556. Garcilaso de la Vega described her as extremely beautiful. Like her brother, she converted to Catholicism with Alonso de Hinojos as her godfather. After having been given a dispensation from the Pope, and then married her brother a second time, in a Catholic wedding ceremony in the cathedral in Cuzco by the Bishop of Cuzco, Juan Solano, in 1558. The couple settled in Yucay. When she was widowed in 1561, the fortune of her late spouse was inherited by their daughter. Spaniards was appointed to manage the fortune to the daughter, who was placed to be raised in a convent, while the widow was left without means, despite the fact that Sayri Túpac had left her an allowance from his daughter's fortune. Cusi Huarcay was forced to instigage a legal court process to get her allowance. She fulfilled her informal role to receive subjects from Vilcabamba, and described as frugal but in debt. In 1564, Cusi Huarcay was housed by Arias Maldonado, and was able to have her daughter Beatriz released from the convent. She had her daughter engaged to Cristóbal Maldonado, a relative of Arias Maldonado. This caused governor Lope García de Castro to have Maldonados exiled to Spain, and Beatriz returned to the convent. Cusi Huarcay remarried the soldier Juan Fernández Coronel. She requested to be allowed to return to Vilcabamba, and promised to reveal the location of silver and gold mines in exchange, but was never given permission to return.

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