Background
He was born in Zaragoza but ancestrally he was descended from the House of Carrascon of Ágreda (Castile), Cintruenigo (Navarra) and Tudela (Navarra).
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Francisco Carrascon
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Doctor Carrascon is buried in an elaborate chapel in the Church of San Miguel Arcangel in Ágreda. The Carrascon were recognized as having Hidalgo or noble status in the mid 17th Century, but were noble going back to at least the 15th Century. Don Francisco served as War Commissioner (Comisario de Guerra) in Orbetello in 1737–1739 just after the War of Polish Succession, and in Messina from 1740 to 1750.
Don Francisco was appointed Senator of Messina in 1751 under the Viceroy of Sicily, Don Eustachio, Duke of Laviefuille.
After a few decades on the Italian peninsula, he and his descendants became known by the italianized spelling of the surname Carascon. Don Francisco was married to Donna Rosa Diez, believed to be the sister of Don Antonio Filareto Diez e Palmero, a Sicilian Nobleman and Senator of Palermo in 1745 and 1764.
Of the daughters, Donna Maria Giuseppa Carascon married Don Berlingiero Scoppa of Lucera, Donna Marianna Carascon married Don Orsino Scoppa of Lucera, Donna Berardina Carrascon married into the noble Doctorate"Espinosa Family and was godmother to General Don Gabriele Manthoné, a leader of the 1799 Naples revolution. One other daughter of unknown name married Cavaliere Gaetano Pistorio of Messina.
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The founder of the Spanish House was Doctor Don Garcia Fernandez de Carrascón (ca 1480-1533), a wealthy Spanish cleric from Ágreda, Spain who was a protonotary apostolic and personal doctor to Pope Adrian VI as well as a canon of the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain. He was a close associate of the founder of the Passionist Order, Saint Paul of the Cross and he is mentioned frequently in his letters from the era.
