After establishing the former Inca capital, Cusco, as the center of Spanish power in Peru, Francisco Pizarro, to give a
semblance of legitimacy to the newly imposed regime, selected a grandson of Huayna Capac to ``take the royal fringe as Inca.''
The new Inca, Manco II, was given no power and subjected by the Spaniards to trying indignities, but he bore this during the
first years of his reign in order to give himself time to develop a plan of action.