Zeid bin Hussein

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This article is about the former Head of the Royal House of Iraq. For his grandson, a former candidate for the position of Secretary-General of the UN, see
Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein. For the Romanian village of Veseud, called Zied in German, see Chirpăr
.
Zaid bin Hussein
Faisal II
SuccessorRa'ad bin Zeid
Born28 February 1898
Ottoman Empire
Died18 October 1970(1970-10-18) (aged 72)
Paris, France
SpouseFahrelnissa Zeid
IssuePrince Ra'ad bin Zeid
HouseHashemite
FatherHussein bin Ali
MotherAdila Khanum
Map presented by TE Lawrence to the Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet in November 1918

Zaid bin Hussein,

Hashemite dynasty and the head of the Royal House of Iraq from 1958 until his death, after the royal line founded by his brother Faisal I of Iraq
died out.

Biography

Prince Zaid was the fourth son of

Constantinople College and Balliol College, Oxford
.

From 1916 to 1919, Prince Zeid was the Commander of the Arab Northern Army. In 1918, T. E. Lawrence suggested that he be made king of a truncated north-western Syria.[1] The advent of French rule resulted in his assignment in 1923 to the Iraqi Cavalry and he was promoted to Colonel.

Zeid was also Iraqi ambassador in Berlin and in Ankara in the 1930s and in London in the 1950s.

On 14 July 1958 Prince Zeid became Head of the Royal House of Iraq, following the assassination of his grand-nephew King

Faisal II by General Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
, who proclaimed Iraq to be a republic. Zeid and his family continued to live in London, where the family resided during the coup, as Zeid was the Iraqi ambassador there.

Prince Zeid died in Paris on 18 October 1970, and was buried in the Royal Mausoleum at Raghdan Palace, Amman, Jordan.[citation needed] His son prince Ra'ad bin Zeid succeeded him as head of the Royal House of Iraq.

Marriage and children

In November 1933, Zeid married

Greece
. Together they had one son:

  • Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind
    .

Ancestry

Hashemites[2][3]
Hashim
(eponymous ancestor)
Abd al-Muttalib
Abdallah
Muhammad
(Islamic prophet)
Fatimah
Hasan
(fifth caliph)
Hasan Al-Mu'thanna
Abdullah
Musa Al-Djawn
Abdullah
Musa
Muhammad
Abdullah
Ali
Suleiman
Hussein
Issa
Abd Al-Karim
Muta'in
Idris
Qatada
(Sharif of Mecca)
Ali
Hassan
(Sharif of Mecca)
Abu Numayy I
(Sharif of Mecca)
Rumaythah
(Sharif of Mecca)
'Ajlan
(Sharif of Mecca)
Hassan
(Sharif of Mecca)
Barakat I
(Sharif of Mecca)
Muhammad
(Sharif of Mecca)
Barakat II
(Sharif of Mecca)
Abu Numayy II
(Sharif of Mecca)
Hassan
(Sharif of Mecca)
Abdullah
(Sharif of Mecca)
Hussein
Abdullah
Muhsin
Auon, Ra'i Al-Hadala
Abdul Mu'een
Muhammad
(Sharif of Mecca)
Ali
Hussein
(Sharif of Mecca King of Hejaz
)
Zeid
(pretender to Iraq
)
Ra'ad
(pretender to Iraq
)
Zeid
King of Jordan
)
Hussein
(Crown Prince of Jordan)


References

  1. ^ "Lawrence's Mid-East map, as displayed at Imperial War Museum, London". BBC News. 2005-10-11. Archived from the original on 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
  2. ISBN 9781860643316
    . Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Family tree". alhussein.gov. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
Zeid bin Hussein
House of Hāshim
Born: 28 February 1898 Died: 18 October 1970
Titles in pretence
Preceded by
None
King Faisal II killed during coup d'état
 — TITULAR —
King of Syria and Iraq
14 July 1958 – 18 October 1970
Reason for succession failure:
Kingdom abolished in 1920
& 1958 		Succeeded by
Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid
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