infancy; At Kufra, 1907 (divorced 1922), his cousin, Sakina, daughter of Muhammad as-Sharif, by whom he had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy; At Kufra, 1911 (divorced 1915), Nafisa, daughter of Ahmad Abu al-Qasim al-Isawi, by whom he had one son who died in infancy; At Siwa, Egypt, 1931, his cousin, Sayyida Fatima al-Shi'fa binti Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif al-Sanussi, Fatimah el-Sharif (1911 Kufra – 3 October 2009, Cairo, buried in Jannat al-Baqi, Medina, Saudi Arabia), fifth daughter of Field Marshal Sayyid Ahmad as-Sharif Pasha bin Sayyid Muhammad as-Sharif al-Senussi, 3rd Grand Seussi, by his second wife, Khadija, daughter of Ahmad al-Rifi, by whom he had one son who died in infancy; At the Libyan Embassy, Cairo, 6 June 1955 (divorced 20 May 1958), Aliya Khanum Effendi (1913 Guney, Egypt), daughter of Abdul-Qadir Lamlun Asadi Pasha. For two short periods (1911–1922 and 1955–1958), King Idris kept two wives, marrying his fifth wife with a view to providing a direct heir. King Idris fathered five sons and one daughter, none of whom survived childhood. He and Fatima adopted a daughter, Suleima, an Algerian orphan, who survived them. Honours Idris was grand master of the following Libyan orders: Order of Idris I High Order of Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali al-Senussi Order of Independence Al-Senussi National Service Star Al-Senussi Army Liberation Medal He was a recipient of the following non-Libyan honours: Imperial Order of the House of Osman 1st class (Ottoman Empire) (1918) Nobility (Nishan-i-Majidieh) 2nd class (Ottoman Empire) (1918) Collar of the Order of al-Hussein bin Ali (Jordan) Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (1954 – KBE in 1946) (United Kingdom) Collar of the Order of Muhammad (Morocco) Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile (Egypt) Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (France) Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence (Tunisia) Grand Cordon of the National Order of the Cedar (Lebanon) Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy) Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece) Ancestry References Footnotes Bibliography External links |- |- 1889 births 1983 deaths Heads of state of Libya Leaders ousted by a coup Libyan exiles Libyan Muslims Libyan people of Algerian descent Libyan prisoners sentenced to death People sentenced to death in absentia Prisoners sentenced to death by Libya Senussi dynasty World War II political leaders Honorary Knights Grand Cross