Francisco Pizarro was known as the man who conquered all of the Incan Empire. Pizarro was born on March 16, 1478 and died on June 26, 1541. He born and raised in Trujillo, Spain. His parents were Gonzalo Pizarro de Aguilar, who was the royal infantry captain of Spain, and his mother was Francisca González Mateos, who was just an ordinary woman. He had three brothers and one half brother.
Francisco lived as a poor child when he was growing up. His parents never were married. He was raised by his grandparents and his brothers. Pizarro lived in Spain’s poorest region. Francisco Pizarro never attended school. He never learned how the read or write. He couldn’t do a chore or a small job that required an education. He was a pig herder for more than fourteen years. After pig herding, he move to the West Indies and there he lived with father’s brother, which is now Hattie.
