 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.