Count of Bañares

Count of Bañares
Count of Bañares
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

	Holder	Time period
Concessed by the Catholic Monarchs
I	Álvaro de Zúñiga y Guzmán	1469-1478
II	Pedro de Zúñiga y Manrique de Lara	1478-1484
III	Álvaro de Zúñiga y Pérez de Guzmán	1484-1532
IV	Teresa de Zúñiga y Manrique de Lara	1532-1565
V	Francisco de Zúñiga y Sotomayor	1565-1591
VI	Francisco Diego López de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Mendoza	1591-1601
VII	Alfonso López de Zúñiga y Pérez de Guzmán	1601-1619
VIII	Francisco López de Zúñiga y Mendoza	1619-1636
IX	Alfonso López de Zúñiga y Mendoza	1636-1660
X	Juan Manuel López de Zúñiga y Mendoza	1660-1664
XI	Manuel López de Zúñiga y Sarmiento de Silva	1664-1686
XII	Juan Manuel López de Zúñiga y Castro	1686-1747
XIII	Joaquín López de Zúñiga y Castro	1747-1777
XIV	María Josefa Pimentel y Téllez-Girón	1777-1834
XV	Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Beaufort Spontin	1834-1844
XVI	Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort Spontin	1844-1882
Rehabilitation by Alfonso XIII
XVII	María de las Mercedes de Arteaga y Echagüe	1917-1934
XVIII	María Belén Morenés y Arteaga	1934-1995
XIX	Enrique Rúspoli y Morenés	present holder

Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón,
2nd Prince of Anglona
1786–1851
With succession to Dukes of Osuna and Béjar.

Mariano Téllez-Girón,
12th Duke of Osuna,
15th Duke of Béjar and Plasencia, 16th Count of Bañares
1814-1882

Carlos Rúspoli y Álvarez de las Asturias Bohorques,
VII Duke of Alcudia
(n. 1993)

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