page_title: Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi y Montiano
section_title: Family and youth
hierarchical_section_title: Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi y Montiano / Family and youth
caption_attribution_description: Español: Título original: Desfile de tropas por las calles de San Sebastián (8/20) Localización: San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa)
context_page_description: Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi y Montiano was a Spanish entrepreneur, Carlist militant and author. Larramendi was as a longtime head of MAPFRE and is often counted among 100 most influential Spanish businessmen of the 20th century. He is recognized as sponsor and organizer of multifold initiatives related to Hispanic culture, mostly in Latin America. He briefly rose to Carlist executive, but is better known as engaged in promotion of Traditionalist heritage.
context_section_description: Hernando's ancestors on both sides were members of Basque nobility. His paternal grandfather, Mariano Hernando, was an art merchant, but is best known for the Trocadero bullring in Paris. Ignacio's father, Luis Hernando de Larramendi (1882-1957), was a lawyer in Madrid. A Carlist activist and unsuccessful candidate to the Cortes, in 1919-1921 he briefly grew to be a political leader of Jaimismo, in the mid-1930s again making it to the party executive and remaining on good terms with the claimant. Having always displayed a penchant for social issues he passed it later on to his sons; during the Civil War he refused to comply with the Unification Decree and withdrew from politics. His wife and Ignacio's mother, María de Montiano y Uriarte (1886-1976), counted Manuel de Montiano and Agustin de Montiano among her ancestors; the closer ones were less fortunate and partially lived selling off family estates; her father was a Bilbao physician. Considered the most handsome girl in the city, she was also fanatically Basque.
  The couple lived in Madrid at calle Velázquez. They had 9 children, all brought up in fervently Catholic ambience. As Ignacio was initially educated at home, he entered Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Pilar as late as in 1932; he had not completed the curriculum before the Civil War broke out. At that time the family was at their usual summer holiday location in San Sebastián; Luis Larramendi escaped to the Nationalist zone and returned few weeks later, when the Carlist Requeté seized the city. Ignacio continued his schooling in the Marianist Colegio de Santa María until obtaining bachillerato in 1937; he then enlisted to an auxiliary Requeté formation in Fuenterrabía, serving as a prison guard. In July 1938 together with his brother and with hesitant consent of their parents he was accepted at 2. Compaña de Radio Requeté, but following a conflict with commander of the unit, in early 1939 he moved to Compañia de Tolosa in the Gipuzkoan Tercio San Miguel. With no major combat the battalion advanced through Catalonia to the French frontier, in late winter shuttled to Extremadura and, again after low-intensity skirmishes, reached the province of Toledo at the moment of final Nationalist victory.
  In 1939 Larramendi commenced studying law in Madrid, graduating in 1941; though initially he intended to be a lawyer, in 1944 he was employed at Dirección General de Seguros, a state insurance regulatory body. Since 1940 he was dating Lourdes Martínez Gutiérrez (1924-2015), granddaughter to general Alfredo Gutiérrez Chaume; her father, "funcionario de Hacienda", died early. The couple married in 1950 and had 9 children, born between 1951 and 1965. The best known of them, Ramón Hernando de Larramendi, is widely recognized in Spain as a polar explorer. Luis succeeded his father in business and in politics, rising to high positions within the Carlist structures and animating a number of Traditionalist activities. Miguel is known as professor of Arabic studies in Madrid and Margarita as a poet and scholar in linguistics.
caption: Requetés on parade
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