Count of Baños () is an hereditary title in the
Peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of
Grandee
Grandee (; , ) is an official royal and noble ranks, aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish nobility. Holders of this dignity enjoyed similar privileges to those of the peerage of France during the , though in neither country did they ha ...
, granted in 1621 by
Philip IV to Sancho Martínez de Leyva, ''
iure uxoris
''Jure uxoris'' (a Latin phrase meaning "by right of (his) wife"), citing . describes a title of nobility used by a man because his wife holds the office or title ''suo jure'' ("in her own right"). Similarly, the husband of an heiress could becom ...
'' Marquess of Leyva and knight of the
Order of Santiago
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.
Counts of Baños (1621)
*Sancho Martínez de Leyva y Suárez de Mendoza, 1st Count of Baños
*Mariana Isabel de Leyva y Mendoza, 2nd Countess of Baños
*Pedro de la Cerda y Leyva, 3rd Count of Baños
*Teresa María de la Cerda y Lancastre, 4th Countess of Baños
*María Ana Josefa de la Cerda y Rocaberti, 5th Countess of Baños
*Francisco Coloma y de la Cerda, 6th Count of Baños
*Domingo Fernández de Córdoba y Portocarrero, 7th Count of Baños
*María Francisca de Sales Portocarrero y Zúñiga, 8th Countess of Baños
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Eugenio Palafox y Portocarrero, 9th Count of Baños
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Cipriano de Palafox y Portocarrero, 10th Count of Baños
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María Francisca de Sales Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick, 11th Countess of Baños
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Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart Portocarrero, 12th Count of Baños
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Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 13th Count of Baños
*Eugenia Sol María del Pilar Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 14th Countess of Baños
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Carlos Alfonso de Mitjans y Fitz-James Stuart, 15th Count of Baños
*Macarena de Mitjans y Verea, 16th Countess of Baños
Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) - 2 March 1998
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*Jaime Patiño y Mitjans, 17th Count of Baños
See also
*List of current grandees of Spain
Grandees of Spain () are the highest-ranking members of the Spanish nobility. They comprise nobles who hold the most important historical landed titles in Spain or its Spanish Empire, former colonies. Many such hereditary titles are held by extend ...
References
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Grandees of Spain
Counts of Spain
Lists of Spanish nobility
Noble titles created in 1621