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Even though Pancho Villa was killed in 1923, his widow, Señora doña Maria Luz Corral de Villa, celebrated her husband’s legacy—and her own celebrity—with a Villa museum at her 50-room mansion in Chihuahua City until her death in 1981.
Austreberta Rentería was Villa's "official wife" at his hacienda of Canutillo, and Villa had two sons with her, Francisco and Hipólito. Others were Soledad Seañez, Juana Torres, whom he wed in 1913 and with whom he had a daughter.
Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Diaz and Victoriano Huerta and after 1914 engaged in civil war and banditry. Learn more about Villa’s life and revolutionary activities in this article.
Gen. Francisco (Pancho) Villa had 20 children by six or seven "wives" and some of them have become prominent professional men, Mrs. Luz Corral vda.
Pancho Villa is one of the most renowned names of the ‘Mexican Revolution’ who was also the Governor of Chihuahua. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, profile, career and timeline.
When Pancho was assassinated in 1923, Maria Luz became a widow at only thirty-one. She was also left in charge of an orphanage of around fifty children. The government seized one of her properties for not paying taxes, but left Maria Luz the mansion in which she welcomed guests for decades.
Pancho Villa House, mansion of 50 rooms in Chihuahua, Mexico, where revolutionary leader Pancho Villa lived with his wife María Luz Corral de Villa in the early 20th century. At that time it was known as the Quinta Luz, and it opened as the Museum of the Revolution in 1982.
Based on extensive oral history and personal interviews, Rubén Osorio has uncovered Villa’s family lineage and background. Rubén Osorio’s research testifies to the valuable contribution that oral history plays in rectifying historical inaccuracies.
This is the true story of Pancho Villa, the bandit-turned-revolutionary who would go down in history as the “Robin Hood of Mexico.” Pancho Villa: From Fugitive To Revolutionary. Pancho Villa was born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula on June 5, 1878, in San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico.
Then he installed himself as president. Villa, a Madero loyalist, wound up in prison but escaped. He ended up in self-imposed exile in El Paso at the Roma Hotel with his “main” wife, Luz Corral. She told the El Paso Times in 1953 that Villa had at least 20 children by as many as seven wives. He did nothing to hide his polygamy.