Francisca Aparicio, 1st Marquis of Vistabella (23 July 1858 – 31 January 1943) was the First Lady of Guatemala between 1874 and 1885, performing the state duties required for the post.

[5] During the uprising led by Miguel García Granados against the President Vicente Cerna in 1871,[6] Justo Rufino Barrios was stationed in Quetzaltenango and met the young girl.

He became infatuated with her, but her parents, thinking she was too young, sent her to Guatemala City to the school run by Ursuline nuns, which catered to the upper classes in the country.

[23] Within a few months of her youngest daughter's birth, her husband was killed on the battlefield in 1885,[24] while trying to unite the countries of Central America into a confederated state.

[24][26] Around the same time, her parents also moved to New York to establish an office to facilitate distribution of his agricultural products in the United States.

[25] She enjoyed entertaining in her opulent mansion, decorated with Latin American artworks, and was known for her dancing and skill with classical music.

[34] Six months later, in December 1899, the Marqués de Vistabella died suddenly while the couple was in Paris, leaving the Marquesa widowed for a second time.

When the Marquis de Vistabella died, having no children himself, he designated his wife's son Justo Rufino Barrios y Aparicio as his heir.

When Justo died in 1909 in Paris, as he had no heirs and his mother had no more living sons, the title passed to her oldest daughter, Elena.