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During his rule at Vilcabamba, Francisco De Toledo, Count Of Oropesa wanted to negotiate with him. The negotiations were about Cusi leaving the fortress and accepting a Crown Pension. After negotiations escalated, around 1568 , Cusi was Baptised into the Catholic Church .

His close companion Friar Diego Ortiz was blamed for killing Titu by poisoning him. Titu Cusi made Tupac Amaru a priest and custodian of Manco Inca's body in Vilcabamba . Tupac Amaru became the Inca Ruler after Titu’s death in 1571 .


SEE ALSO

  • ''An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru'' by Titu Cusi Yupanqui, trans. Ralph Bauer ISBN 087081821X

  • ''Andean Worlds'' by Kenneth J. Andrien. ISBN 0826323588



EXTERNAL LINKS

  • http://www.jqjacobs.net/andes/tupac_amaru.html