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Felipe de Vargas-Zúñiga y Montero de Espinosa (Almendralejo, May 6, 1895 - Badajoz, August 5, 1977) was a Spanish nobleman and politician, 12th Count of la Oliva de Plasencia.

Biography
He descends from a family that has its roots in Extremadura. Son of José de Vargas-Zúñiga y Golfín, Graduate in Law, and Josefa Montero de Espinosa y Chaves; paternal grandson of Felipe de Vargas-Zúñiga y Mendoza, Graduate in Law, and Josefa Golfín Calderón y Vargas-Zúñiga; and maternal grandson of Álvaro Montero de Espinosa and Gutiérrez de la Barreda (mayor of Almendralejo) and Eloísa de Chaves and Fernández de Córdoba.

He succeeded to the title of Count of Oliva de Plasencia, following the resignation of his father, to his aunt Catalina Chumacero y Golfín, 11th Countess of la Oliva de Plasencia, successor in turn to his uncle, Senator García Golfín y Vargas-Zúñiga, X Count of Oliva of Plasencia. He was the great-grandson of Senator Fernando Montero de Espinosa y Cabeza de Vaca, V Marquis of the Colony. His brother Antonio was the II Marquis of Siete Iglesias, historian and Full Academician of the Royal Academy of History.

He was a deputy for Badajoz in the terms of 1921-1923 and 1923-19241, a cavalry officer, President of the Sociedad Hípica Lebrera de Badajoz and President of the Círculo Donoso Cortés, the latter being a pro-monarchist organization in favor of royal rights and dynastic works of D. Juan de Borbón, count of Barcelona, ​​during the Franco era.

He married his third cousin María de Gracia Josefa de la Calzada y Vargas-Zúñiga, from the house of the Marquises of Santa Cruz de Inguanzo. He had 7 children.