Count of Bañares | |
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Creation date | 1485 |
Created by | Catholic Monarchs of Spain |
Peerage | • Zúñiga (House of Béjar and Plasencia) • Pimentel (House of Benavente) • Téllez-Girón (House of Osuna) • Arteaga, marquises of Argüeso (minor line of the dukes of El Infantado, former marquises of Valmediano) • Morenés, marquises of Bassecourt (minor line of the barons of the Cuatro Torres) • Ruspoli, princes of Holy Roman Empire (minor line of the princes of Cerveteri, with the Barony of Marescotti, of the Count house of Vignanello, and Ruspoli junction, with the Marquisate of Cerveteri) |
First holder | Álvaro de Zúñiga y Guzmán |
Present holder | Enrique Rúspoli y Morenés, (XIX Count since 1995) |
The Count of Bañares is a nobility title of the Kingdom of Spain, created by Enrique IV of Castile in 1469 and confirmed by the Catholic Monarchs in 1485 in favor of Álvaro de Zúñiga y Guzmán, I Duke of Arévalo, I Duke of Béjar and I Duke of Plasencia (title granted over the previous Count of Plasencia, of which he was its II Count).[1]
His name refers to the municipality of Bañares, in La Rioja.[2]
The title was reinstated by King Alfonso XIII in 1917, in favor of María de las Mercedes de Arteaga y Echagüe, XVII Marquise of Argüeso, XIV Marquise of Campoo, XIV Countess of Villada.[3][4]
Counts of Bañares
Family tree
References
- ^ "Álvaro de Zúñiga y Guzmán - I Duque de Béjar". Fundación Casa Ducal de Medicelo. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ a b "La historia de Bañares". Bañares (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ^ "OSUNA,F.3,SF.07 -". PARES. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ^ DE SALAZAR Y ACHA, Jaime (2008). "La nobleza titulada medieval en la Corona de Castilla" (PDF). Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía (in Spanish). 11: 7–94. ISSN 1133-1240.
Additional sources
- AER Archivo SNAHN, Signatura OSUNA,C.221,D.71-80
- ibídem, CP.88,D.2
- Vilar y Pascual, Pág. 481
- AER Archivo SNAHN, Signatura OSUNA,C.122,D.39-47