Francisco Carrascón

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Francisco Carrascón (ca. 1710-ca.1780) was a high ranking Spanish Military Officer and War Commissioner in the 18th Century. He was born in Zaragoza but ancestrally he was descended from the House of Carrascon of Ágreda (Castile), Cintruenigo (Navarra) and Tudela (Navarra). 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 1740-1750. He was appointed Senator of Messina in 1751 under the Viceroy of Sicily, Don Eustachio, Duke of Laviefuille. He was also known as Don Francesco Carascon by the Italians. The surname remained in its italianized form for his sons and grandsons who were also high ranking officers in the army of the Kingdom of Naples (or Kingdom of the Two Sicilies).