Francisco Franco, 2nd Lord of Meirás


Don Francisco de Asís Franco y Martínez-Bordiú, 2nd Lord of Meirás, Grandee of Spain, 11th Marquis of Villaverde, is a Spanish aristocrat and grandson of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. In Spanish, his peerage is written El XI Marqués de Villaverde.

Family

Francisco, a. k. a. Francis, is the third of seven children of surgeon Cristóbal, 10th Marqués de Villaverde, and his wife Carmen, 1st Duchess of Franco, the only child of Generalísimo Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator, and his wife Carmen Polo. His older sisters are María del Carmen and María de la O, and his four younger siblings are María del Mar, José Cristóbal, María de Aránzazu and Jaime Felipe.
When Francisco was born, General Franco ordered his last names to be legally inverted so that his first male grandchild could perpetuate the Franco lineage.

Marriage and children

Francisco Martínez-Bordiú y Franco married firstly, at Altafulla, Tarragona, on 18 December 1981, María de Suelves y Figueroa, daughter of Juan José de Suelves y de Ponsich, 11th Marquess of Tamarit and his wife Victoria de Figueroa y Borbón, daughter of the 2nd Count of Romanones, and had issue:
Francisco Franco y Martínez-Bordiú and María de Suelves y Figueroa were divorced in 1992. Upon his father's death in 1998, Francisco Franco y Martínez-Bordiú succeeded as 11th Marquis of Villaverde. After the 1988 death of his maternal grandmother, Carmen Polo, he was the only one to claim the Lordship of Meirás she had held. Thus, he became 2nd Lord of Meirás.
He married secondly, at Móstoles in March 2001, Miriam Guisasola y Carrión, and had issue, born before wedlock:
Finally they divorced in 2014.

Ancestry