Francisco Tadco Calomarde, count de, a Spanish satesman, born at Villel in Aragon about 1775, died in Toulouse, France, in June, 1842. He was employed in ,the office of the minister of justice, and was made chief of this department during the time when the central junta, in order to avoid the armies of Napoleon, sat at Seville, and afterward at Cadiz. In 1814, on the return of Ferdinand VII., Calomarde was made chief secretary for the Indies. Here he was convicted of bribery, and banished to Toledo, and afterward to Pamplona. In 1823 he was made secretary to the regency, and subsequently minister of justice. He organized the corps of royalist volunteers, recalled the Jesuits, reopened the convents, and closed the universities. In 1832, when Ferdinand was recovering from a dangerous illness, but lingered in a semi-idiotic condition, Calomarde extorted from him his signature to an act by which he reestablished the Salic law of succession in favor of Don Carlos. When Ferdinand revealed this fraudulent proceeding, Calomarde was banished to his seat in Aragon, and only escaped imprisonment by fleeing to France, where he passed the rest of his days in obscurity.