Huáscar

Twelfth Sapa Inca, son of Huayna Capac by his sister Mama Rahua Ocllo, recognized as the legitimate heir by the Cuzco nobility. Defeated by his half-brother Atahualpa in the five-year civil war of 1529–1532, he was captured and held in chains. Atahualpa, captured in turn by Pizarro at Cajamarca, ordered Huáscar's murder rather than risk the Spanish liberating him as a rival puppet.