Túpac Huallpa was a younger brother of Atahualpa and Huascar. After Atahualpa's death by execution on 29 August1533, the Spaniards appointed Túpac Huallpa as a puppet ruler and ensured he was crowned with great recognition and ceremony. All this was done to convince the Inca people that they were still being ruled by an Inca. Túpac Huallpa and his people may not have understood that the Spaniards were using him to take control of Peru and steal the goldtreasures of his country.
Túpac died of smallpox in Jauja in 1533 soon after he was crowned the Inca Emperor by Francisco Pizarro. He was succeeded by another brother, a member of a lower nobility class, named Manco Inca Yupanqui.
Descendants
Túpac Huallpa was the father of four children:
Francisco Huallpa Túpac Yupanqui;
Beatriz Túpac Yupanqui, who married the conquistador Pedro Alvarez de Holguín de Ulloa (1490 - 1542), son of Pedro Alvarez de Golfín and his wife Constanza de Aldana, and had issue (ancestors of Máxima Zorreguieta y Cerruti);
Palla Chimpu Ocllo, baptized as Isabel Suárez Chimpu Ocllo, who married Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega y Vargas (died 1559), and was the mother of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. After she was widowed, she married secondly Juan de Pedroche and had two daughters: one, Ana Ruíz, married her cousin Martín de Bustinza, and had issue, while the other, Luisa de Herrera, married Pedro Márquez de Galeoto, becoming the mother of Alonso Márquez de Figueroa.
Leonor Yupanqui, who married Juan Ortiz de Zárate, and had issue.