Personal Life
Ibn Saud was fifteen when he was first married. However, his wife died soon thereafter. He remarried at the age of eighteen and his first son Turki was born. The number of his children is unknown. One source indicates that he had 37 sons, another source 45. His number of wives is put at 22.
- Wadhah bint Muhammad bin 'Aqab
- Turki (I) (1900–1919)
- Saud (12 January 1902 – 23 February 1969); reigned 1953–1964
- Nura
- Munira
- Tarfah bint Abdullah Al AlSheikh
- Khaled (I) (born 1903, died in infancy)
- Faisal (April 1906 – 25 March 1975); reigned 1964–1975
- Saad (I) (1914–1919)
- Anud (born 1917)
- Nura
- Lulua bint Salih Al Dakhil (married 1906)
- Fahd (I) (1906–1919)
- Al Jawhara bint Musaed Al Jiluwi (died 1919)
- Muhammad (1910–1988)
- Khalid (II) (13 February 1913 – 13 June 1982); reigned 1975–1982
- Al Anoud
- Lajah bint Khalid bin Hithlayn
- Sara (1916 – June 2000)
- Bazza I
- Nasser (1911–1984)
- Jawhara bint Saad bin Abdul Muhsin al Sudairi
- Saad (II) (1915–1993)
- Musa'id (born 1923)
- Abdul Mohsin (1925–1985)
- Al Bandari (1928–2008)
- Hassa al Sudairi (1900-1969)
(The sons are known as the "Sudairi Seven")- Fahd (II) (1920 – 1 August 2005); reigned 1982–2005
- Sultan (1928–2011; crown prince 2005-2011)
- Luluwah (ca 1928–2008)
- Abdul Rahman (born 1931)
- Nayef (1933-2012; crown prince 27 October 2011-16 June 2012)
- Turki (II) (born 1934)
- Salman (born 1935; crown prince 18 June 2012 – Present)
- Ahmed (born 1942)
- Jawaher
- Latifa
- Al Jawhara
- Moudhi (died young)
- Felwa (died young)
- Shahida
- Mansour (1921 – 2 May 1951)
- Mishaal (born 1926)
- Qumash (1927– September 2011)
- Mutaib (born 1931)
- Fahda bint Asi al Shuraim
- Abdullah (born August 1924); current king, since 2005
- Nuf
- Seeta (c. 1930 – 13 April 2011)
- Bazza (the second wife named Bazza)
- Bandar (born 1923)
- Fawwaz (1934–2008)
- Mishari (1932 – 23 May 2000)
- Haya bint Sa'ad al-Sudairy (1913 – 18 April 2003)
- Badr (I) (1931–1932)
- Badr (II) (born 1933)
- Huzza (1951 – July 2000)
- Abdul Ilah (born 1935)
- Abdul Majeed (1943–2007)
- Nura (born 1930)
- Mishail
- Munaiyir (died December 1991)
- Talal (I) (1930–1931)
- Talal (II) (born 1932)
- Nawwaf (born 1933)
- Madawi
- Mudhi Al Sudairi
- Sultana (ca. 1928 – 7 July 2008)
- Haya (ca. 1929 – 2 November 2009)
- Majid (II) (9 October 1938 – 12 April 2003)
- Sattam (born 21 January 1941)
- Nouf bint al-Shalan
- Thamir (1937 – 27 June 1959)
- Mamdouh (born 1941)
- Mashhur (born 1942)
- Saida al Yamaniyah
- Hazloul (1942-29 September 2012)
- Khadra
- Baraka al Yamaniyah
- Muqrin (born 15 September 1945)
- Futayma
- Hamoud (1947–February 1994)
- By Unknown
- Shaikha (born 1922)
- Majed (I) (1934–1940)
- Abdul Saleem (1941–1942)
- Jiluwi (I) (1942–1944)
- Jiluwi (II) (1952–1952) (the youngest son of Ibn Saud but died as an infant).
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