Hdefonso Diaz De Ribera Almodovar, count of, a Spanish statesman, born about 1777, died in having authorized a crusade, the clergy exerted themselves to repel the invasion; and on June 12, 1212, the battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought, in which Mohammed barely escaped with life, leaving, it is said, 170,000 dead on the field. He returned to Morocco, and resigning his crown to his son Yusuf Abu-Yacub, who was only 11 years old, died in 1213. With the latter prince, who died childless in 1223, the direct Almohade line terminated. Al-Adel and Al-Mamoun, both nearly related to Abu-Yacub, held for a time the empire of the Almohades, but it was soon torn asunder by internal divisions, and shortly after the middle of the 13th century disappeared.

January, 1840. On the fall of the constitution in 1823 he retired into France, whence he returned on the invitation of the regent Christina, was chosen president of the popular branch of the cortes, and in 1835 was appointed captain general of Valencia, where he ruled with great severity. Under Mendizabal he was successively minister of war and minister of foreign affairs, and the latter position he held also under Espartero in 1842-'3. In 1837 he was appointed senator.