Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud [SEP] noble family
Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1921 – 2 May 1951) (Arabic: منصور بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) was the first defense minister of Saudi Arabia and a member of Saudi royal family, House of Saud.
Early life.
Prince Mansour was born in 1921. He is widely believed to be the ninth son of Ibn Saud, but William A. Eddy argues that Prince Mansour is the sixth son of Ibn Saud.
His mother was an Armenian woman, Shahida (died
2017, hours after a major purge of the kingdom's political and business leadership.
Family.
Mansour was the son of former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz and Abta bint Hamoud Al Rashid, and a brother of Prince Turki bin Muqrin bin Abdulaziz and Fahd bin Muqrin. In 2013, Mansour married a daughter of his first cousin Prince Saud bin Fahd Al Saud.
Career.
In January 2015, King Salman accepted Crown Prince Murqin's recommendation that Mansour be made Advisor at the Court of the Crown Prince.