ALMA`GRO, DIEGO D'

ALMA`GRO, DIEGO D'
   a confederate of Pizzaro in the conquest of Peru, but a quarrel with the brothers of Pizzaro about the division of the spoil on the capture of Cuzco, the capital of Chile, led to his imprisonment and death (1475-1538). - DIEGO D', his son, who avenged his death by killing Pizzaro, but being conquered by Vaca de Castro, was himself put to death (1520-1542).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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