Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Imran al-Tinmalali (), also known by the name of Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Mussa, and called in Christian sources Abu Iehie or Aboheihe, was the last

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Vali of

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. The nisba ''al-Tinmalali'' reveals that he hailed from

Tinmel Tinmel (Berber: Tin Mel or Tin Mal, ) is a small mountain village in the High Atlas 100 km from Marrakesh, Morocco. Tinmel was the cradle of the Berber Almohad empire, from where the Almohads started their military campaigns against the ...

, the

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capital in Morocco between 1121 and 1147. In 1208 he was the last of the various governing

Valis of Majorca who were appointed from Marrakech. In Majorca Abu-Yahya created a semi-independent princedom, with only a formal submission to the Almohad

emir Emir (; ' (), also Romanization of Arabic, transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic language, Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocratic, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person po ...

. He ruled the island and the entire Balearic archipelago in the name of the

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until

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conquered it in 1229 during the

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. His son, only three years old at the time of his capture by James I, was baptized with the names of his father and his baptismal godfather. He became the first Baron of

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and the first Baron of

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in 1250, carrying the name Jaime de Gotor. He married Elvira Roldán, daughter of Martin Roldán and his wife María López de Luna and became the progenitor of the family with the surname Gotor.

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Evocació d'Abu Yahya (Evocation of Abu Yahya)
by Llorenç Vidal Vidal (in Catalan). {{DEFAULTSORT:Abu Yahya Governors of the Almohad Caliphate Oriental islands of al-Andalus People from Mallorca 13th-century Berber people