Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Prince Mansour was born in Qasr Al Hukm, Riyadh, in 1921. but William A. Eddy argues that Prince Mansour is the sixth son of Abdulaziz. His mother was a Lebanese woman, Shahida (died 1938),{{cite book|author=Leslie McLoughlin|title=Ibn Saud: Founder of A Kingdom At age seven Prince Mansour's education began with a private tutor, and he studied Quran and Arabic.{{cite thesis|author=Alexander Blay Bligh|title=Succession to the throne in Saudi Arabia. Court Politics in the Twentieth Century|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303101806 ==Career and activities==

Prince Mansour's first government post was the supervision of the royal palaces in Riyadh which he was appointed in 1938. In 1940 he was made minister of war.{{cite book|author=C. H. H. Owen|title=The Naval Miscellany|volume=VI|page=433|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxEIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA433|year=2020|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-00-034082-2|location=London; New York Then Prince Mansour was appointed minister of defense and aviation by King Abdulaziz on 10 November 1943 when the office was established which had been titled as the ministry of war since 1940.{{cite web|title=Royal Saudi Land Forces History In December 1944 Prince Mansour visited Khartoum where Saudi army personnel were trained in driving and maintenance. He and King's another son, Muhammad, accompanied their father in his meetings with the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 14 February 1945{{cite book|author=William A. Eddy|author-link=William A. Eddy|title=FDR meets Ibn Saud|year=2005 Prince Mansour asked the British to reorganize the Saudi armed forces in November 1944.{{cite thesis|title=Anglo-American relations in Saudi Arabia, 1941-1945: a study of a trying relationship|location=London School of Economics|author=Matthew Hinds|year=2012|degree=PhD|page=167 Prince Mansour also headed the Saudi Arabian Airlines when he was serving as defense minister. His term as defense minister lasted until his death in 1951, and he was replaced by his full brother Prince Mishaal who had been his deputy at the ministry. ==Personal life==

Prince Mansour was married and had two children, Talal and Muhdi. Prince Talal (1950—2023) was raised by his uncle Prince Mutaib following the death of his father.{{cite book|author=Sharaf Sabri|title=The House of Saud in Commerce: A Study of Royal Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51Bb8Ix7xw8C&pg=PA151|location=New Delhi Unlike his siblings Prince Mansour was fond of automobiles and machines and spent most of his time in the Royal garage in Riyadh. ==Death==

Prince Mansour had some health issues and went to India for treatment in June 1943. Prince Muhammad and Abdullah Suleiman, his father's advisor, accompanied him in this visit. He also visited Palestine for health issues in October and in November 1943. Concerning the cause of Prince Mansour's death there are two other reports arguing that he died of kidney disease. Prince Mansour was buried in Al Adl cemetery in Mecca.{{cite news|title=Al-Adl: One of Makkah's oldest cemeteries|date=18 June 2012 ==Ancestry==