 His paternal grandfather, Mariano Hernando, was an art merchant, but is best known for the Trocadero bullring in Paris.Ignacio's father, (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.