First concession of the nobility title
Creation	1442
Created by	John II of Castile
Peerage	• Zúñiga (Houses of Béjar and Plasencia)
First holder	Pedro de Zúñiga y Leiva

Second concession of the nobility title
Creation date	1611
Created by	Philip III of Spain
Peerage	• Lanuza • Perellós • Marimón • Arróspide
First holder	Pedro Lanuza y Ximénez de Urrea
Present holder	Cristina de Arróspide y Núñez

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 century on Plasencia de Jalón, until it was dispossessed of it by Philip II, when his brother Juan de Lanuza was beheaded, for having supported Antonio Pérez, his secretary, who had invoked the Fueros of Aragon, to avoid being tried for the murder in El Escorial of Escobedo (secretary of Don Juan de Austria).^[1] Granted the Grandee of Spain on August 18, 1707.

Its denomination, of the current title in force, refers to the town of Plasencia de Jalón, in the province of Zaragoza.^[1]

The title of Count of Plasencia (in the kingdom of Castile), had been created for the first time in 1442, by John II of Castile, referring to Plasencia (locality of Extremadura) for Pedro de Zúñiga y Leiva, in exchange for the lordship of Trujillo, who transmitted it to his son Álvaro de Zúñiga y Guzmán who was the II and last Count of Plasencia, of this first concession.

The primitive county of Plasencia was extinguished in 1476, when the Catholic Monarchs elevated this county to a duchy with the same denomination, in favor of Álvaro de Zúñiga y Guzmán, in compensation for the loss of the Duchy of Arévalo, which reverted to the Crown.

• Elenco de Grandezas y Títulos Nobiliarios Españoles. Instituto "Salazar y Castro", C.S.I.C.

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