Saud bin Abdul Aziz, eldest son of Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (Ibn Saud) and second King of Saudi Arabia. After spending his early life as a fighter in his father's forces, Saud inherited the Saudi throne in 1953 and changed the state's succession laws to favor direct primogeniture from father to son as opposed to Salic law. After years of internal conflict, he was deposed in 1964 by members of the Saudi clergy and the House of Saud; he was replaced with his half-brother Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Saud.
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