[13] The couple settled on the family estate in Viana; they had 6 children, born between 1896 and 1912: Casilda,[14] José María, Jesús,[15] Carmen, Pilar[16] and Ángel Elizalde Sainz de Robles.

[29] Jesús’ younger brother, Ángel Elizalde Sainz de Robles, served as requeté and died in combat in 1939; his sister Carmen became member of the Damas Apostólicas congregation.

[46] Hailed in the party press as “culto abogado”[47] and author of “beautiful lectures”, Elizalde lambasted the Republic as a regime which brought nothing but misery,[48] denounced parliamentarian democracy[49] as a system which turned Spaniards into slaves of caciques and trade-unionists, and declared Marxism and separatism two principal enemies of the country.

[50] He praised organicist suffrage,[51] within limits permitted by censorship advocated virtues of traditionalist monarchy[52] and made veiled references to dynastic claim of the Carlist royal pretender, Don Alfonso Carlos.

[57] Elizalde's rancor was addressed not only against left-wing parties; he denounced Renovación Española as s "general staff without an army"[58] and referred to CEDA as hypocritical “católicos de intereses”,[59] whose failure “fills us with joy”.

[63] His place on the list of regional right-wing coalition was offered to Elizalde, the friend of Arellano, who in turn was the protégé of the Navarrese Carlist leader, conde de Rodezno.

[70] During next few months he shuttled on propaganda tours across the Nationalist-held zone, first to Teruel (July)[71] and then to Sierra de Guadarrama (August),[72] Burgos,[73] Pamplona (September),[74] Andalusia (October),[75] Navarre, Salamanca (December)[76] and Zamora (January 1937).

[80] He did not form part of the nationwide party leadership and did not participate in a series of crucial meetings debating the threat of forced political unification;[81] eventually he approached the rodeznistas, who advocated compliance with Franco's dictate.

[89] In February 1939, soon after death of his younger brother had turned into a demonstration of Traditionalist loyalty,[90] Elizalde addressed Franco with a letter which protested marginalisation of Carlism[91] and in correspondence with Fernández-Cuesta argued over local provincial appointments.

[95] Restrained by dictatorial features of the regime he joined efforts to find non-political ways of expressing Traditionalist identity[96] and contributed to launch of the annual Montejurra ascent.

[102] In his new role Elizalde had to confront growing bewilderment and confusion; local party leaders were increasingly divided over collaboration with Francoist structures and rapprochement with the Alfonsists.

[115] He went on living in Madrid[116] and kept practicing as abogado, in the press listed e.g. as representing various legal entities engaged in juridical proceedings over mining licences;[117] he also competed for posts in executive of the local Bar Association.

[126] This time he served the full 3-year term, working in Seccion Educación Popular;[127] as consejero he again received the Cortes ticket in the so-called V. Legislatura, which he held until its expiry 1958.

[128] Elizalde's seat in Consejo Nacional was not prolonged in 1958 and following 4 years in somewhat decorative yet still prestigious and nominally key institutions of the Francoist state he again fell off top strata of the regime.

[131] He was not noted in newspapers of the era; the only case his name appeared in the press was related to Elizalde's own article in Punta Europa, a Traditionalist periodical headed by Vícente Marrero.

[132] It is not clear whether cessation of Elizalde's Cortes career had anything to do with a so-called Acto de Estoril of 1957, when some 50 Traditionalists visited Don Juan and declared him the legitimate Carlist heir.

[133] Due to his wartime record and former position in the Navarrese executive Elizalde was among the most eminent “estorilos”; the act completed his 15-year journey to the Juanista camp and confirmed his definitive breakup with the Javierista branch of Carlism.

He did not enter Consejo Privado or other institutions grouping politicians from Don Juan's inner circle, and he soon disappeared from public life altogether; it is not clear whether he was marginalized or deliberately withdrew into privacy.