Claim: Erasmo Janer Gironella was destined to become a public figure and one source claims that during the First Carlist War his father joined the liberal Barcelona juntas
Evidence: As heir to the former mayor of Barcelona and son to one of the most potent men in the city Janer was destined to become a public figure, yet political preferences of his ancestors are not entirely clear. One source claims that during the First Carlist War his father joined the liberal Barcelona juntas while another one states that in the mid-1840s he was a Traditionalist, which might point to not an unusual conservative evolution of certain section of the .