It’s often said that Julius Caesar was a tall and good-looking man by the standards of his era. He was a womanizer proud of his sexual prowess who boasted a great many romantic conquests. He only acknowledged two children during his lifetime, however, his daughter Julia by his first wife and his son by Cleopatra of Egypt, Caesaerion.
His daughter died in childbirth, giving birth to a son with Pompey who himself died as an infant. This was Caesar’s only known grandchild born during his life. Caesarion was killed on the orders of Augustus, then known as Octavian. Ceasarion sadly died as a teenager and was not known to have fathered any children.
However inside Rome, and outside of Rome… Caesar was a beast. One of his many married lovers was the mother of Brutus. Brutus, as we all know, was one of the senators who famously betrayed and stabbed Caesar to death on the senate floor. As rumor has it, Brutus and his brother may have been the biological sons of none other than… Caesar! The man they both played a part in killing.
There were many more senators, generals, high- and low-ranking Romans of all ages with pretty, young and bored wives in which the lustful general saw a sweet conquest. Happily pounding away for most of his 55 years on earth, Caesar likely fathered dozens of out-of-wedlock children…
None of his children can be traced as of now, and DNA testing would be useless as the Romans burned their dead. But a good portion of Italy and Southern Europe may well be Caesar’s direct descendants for all we know, as even when he was assassinated by a group of senators, several of those men were rumored to be his offspring and one was married to a rumored daughter — Caesar got around!
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