The Count of Bañares is a nobility title of the

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, created by

Enrique IV of Castile Henry IV of Castile ( Castilian: ''Enrique IV''; 5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474), nicknamed the Impotent, was King of Castile and León and the last of the weak late-medieval kings of Castile and León. During Henry's reign, the nobles bec ...

in 1469 and confirmed by the

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in 1485 in favor of

Álvaro de Zúñiga y Guzmán Álvaro de Zúñiga y GuzmánOther spellings for Zúñiga: Estúñiga, Stúñiga and Stunica. (Encinas de Esgueva, 1410 - Béjar, June 10, 10 June 1488) was a Kingdom of Castile, Castilian Nobility, nobleman, member of the influential House of Zú ...

, I

Duke of Arévalo Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ...

, I

Duke of Béjar Duke of Béjar () is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1485 by the Catholic Monarchs to Álvaro de Zúñiga, 1st Duke of Plasencia and chief justice of Castile. The title refers ...

and I Duke of Plasencia (title granted over the previous

Count of Plasencia The Count of Plasencia is a Spanish nobility title, created in 1611 by King Philip III, in favor of Pedro Lanuza y Ximénez de Urrea. The title was granted in memory of the ancient dominion that the Lanuza family had exercised in the 16th centu ...

, of which he was its II Count). His name refers to the municipality of

Bañares Bañares is a municipality of La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, Spain. It is located in the Comarcas of Spain, comarca of Santa Domingo de la Calzada, some 45 km west of Logroño. Its economy is primarily based on agriculture. Especially in the c ...

, in

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. The title was reinstated by King

Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French language, French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May ...

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.

Counts of Bañares

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References

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 History of La Rioja (Spain)