Don Francisco Vazquez de Molinar

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Don Francisco Vazquez de' Molinar' (September 9, 1819 - March 10, 1887), was of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg Imperial families, a cousin to Maximilian I of Mexico.

Don Francisco, born in Burgos, Spain, to the Archduchess Maria Isabella (Vazquez) and Archduke Josef Molinar' from Vienna, Austria, who are direct descendants of Maximilian III and Maria of Spain. Don Francisco's wife, Aitana Armendaraz, born December 22, 1821 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain, descends from the Basque Count Don Luis Armendaraz and Nitalia Diaz of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. Don Francisco's second daughter, born Amada Vazquez de' Molinar, 1852 - 1938, was the mother of Pascual Orozco, the Mexican Revolutinary General, and the great aunt of Ted Williams, the American baseball player and United States Marine Corps combat pilot. Don Francisco died in Chihuahua, Mexico.