Editing Count (section)

===In other continental European countries===
==== Holy See ====
{{Further|Papal count}}
Count/Countess was one of the noble titles granted by the Pope as a temporal sovereign, and the title's holder was sometimes informally known as a papal count/papal countess or less so as a Roman count/Roman countess, but mostly as count/countess. The comital title, which could be for life or hereditary, was awarded in various forms by popes and Holy Roman Emperors since the Middle Ages, infrequently before the 14th century, and the pope continued to grant the comital and other noble titles even after 1870, it was largely discontinued in the mid 20th-century, on the accession of [[John XXIII]]. The Papacy and the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]] might appoint counts palatine with no particular territorial fief. Until 1812 in some regions, the purchaser of land designated "feudal" was ennobled by the noble seat that he held and became a ''conte''. This practice ceased with the formal abolition of feudalism in the various principalities of early-19th century Italy, last of all in the [[Papal States]].

==== In Poland ====
{{Main|Noble titles in Poland}}
{{See also|Szlachta}}
Poland was notable throughout its history for not granting titles of nobility. This was on the premise that one could only be born into nobility, outside rare exceptions. Instead, it conferred [[Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|non-hereditary courtly or civic roles]]. The noble titles that were in use on its territory were mostly of foreign provenance and usually subject to the process of [[indygenat]], naturalisation.

==== In Hungary ====
{{Main|Hungarian nobility}}
Somewhat similar to the native privileged class of nobles found in Poland, Hungary also had a class of [[Conditional noble]]s.

====On the Iberian peninsula====

As opposed to the plethora of hollow "gentry" counts, only a few countships ever were important in medieval [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberia]]; most territory was firmly within the [[Reconquista]] kingdoms before counts could become important. However, during the 19th century, the title, having lost its high rank (equivalent to that of [[Duke]]), proliferated.

=====Portugal=====
{{see also|List of countships in Portugal}}
[[Portugal]] itself started as a countship in 868, but became a [[History of Portugal (1112-1279)|kingdom]] in 1139 (see:''[[County of Portugal]]''). Throughout the [[history of Portugal]], especially during the [[History of Portugal (1834-1910)|constitutional monarchy]] many other countships were created.

=====Spain=====
[[File:Heraldic Crown of Spanish Count.svg|right|thumb|[[Coronet]] of a count (Spanish heraldry)]]
In Spain, no countships of wider importance exist, except in the former Spanish march.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}
*[[County of Barcelona]], the initial core of the [[Principality of Catalonia]], later one of the states of the [[Crown of Aragon]], which became one of the two main components of the Spanish crown.
*[[Count of Aragon]]
*[[Count of Castile]]
*[[Kingdom of Galicia|Count of Galicia]]
*[[Count of Lara]]
*[[Count Cassius]], progenitor of the [[Banu Qasi]]
*[[County of Urgell]], later integrated into the [[Principality of Catalonia]].
*The other [[Catalan counties]] were much smaller and were absorbed early into the [[County of Barcelona]] (between parentheses the annexation year): [[County of Girona]] (897), [[County of Besalú]], [[County of Osona]], which included the nominal [[County of Manresa]] (1111), [[County of Berga]] and [[County of Conflent]] (1117) and [[County of Cerdanya]] (1118). From 1162 these counties, together with that of Barcelona, were merged into the [[Principality of Catalonia]], a sovereign state that absorbed some other counties: [[County of Roussillon]] (1172), [[County of Pallars Jussà]] (1192), [[County of Empúries]] (1402), [[County of Urgell]] (1413) and [[County of Pallars Sobirà]] (1487), giving the Principality its definitive shape.