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How Many Wives Did Julius Caesar Have?

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Julius Caesar married thrice in his lifetime; his first wife was Cornelia Cinnilla the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna who served as Consul in the Roman Republic for four consecutive terms; the Cinna family was one of the most influential families in Roman politics. Caesar married Cornelia when he was 17 years of age in 83 BC; Cornelia gave birth to a girl who was named as Julia and died soon after.

His second marriage was to Pompeia Sulla the grand daughter of the Roman Dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla with the marriage being regarded as a political alliance. Caesar did not have any issue from his second wife and divorced her after she was accused of having an affair with Publius Clodius a tribune of the Roman Republic.

Caesar married Calpurnia Pisonis with whom he was childless; according to sources she had a premonition that he was going to be assassinated and had warned him about the same.

Cleopatra VII the famous Queen of Egypt was Caesar's mistress as was Servilia Caeponis the mother of Brutus one of the chief conspirators in the assassination plot against Caesar. Caesar only biological son was from Cleopatra named as Caesarion and who ruled Egypt as Ptolemy XV.

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Thats not right sorry he necer took the power he was killed by octavious when he took over egypt he was killed before his mom and step dad maroucs antonous aka mark antony
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He had four wives.
The first he was only 16 and married a few months. It was arranged by his father Gaius. Cossutia
the second he loved and had his only legitimate child Julia with,Cornelia
the third Pompeia who cheated
and the fourth Calpurnia who conspired against him when he told her his plans of divorce so he could marry Cleopatra. She is the reason for his assassins
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Julius caesar had 3 wives whom he had 1 child with
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Five including his 2 mistresses.
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He didnt have 14!! He had 3 the last one he had a kid with..I know because I saw the movie! :)
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Geez guys! He had THREE wivez! But many woman fell in love with him. They don't count as wives! And he had two kids but adopted his nephew:Dxx
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A long-time researcher of Caesar, as the answer states, he had 3 wives. However, daughter Julia did not die "soon after." She was married to Gnaeus Pompeius ("Pompey"), but died young. However, Caesar did have an ungodly number of mistresses in Rome and lord knows how many amorous dalliances in Gaul. The calumny that Cleopatra VII's son was Caesar's is so much gossip from the anti-Caesar element. The man had sex with hundreds of women, married three, but had just one child when he was young. I highly doubt, in his elder years, he had a son by Cleopatra VII. However, it was good political propaganda for her to say it was Caesar's progeny -- especially after Caesar's death. Of interesting note: When Caesar's ardor calmed with one mistress, and went on to another, the women always stayed steadfastly loyal to him.
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Julius Caesar had 14 wives! Can you believe it?! Even I can't! I have found that information everywhere I looked. In books, online, everywhere. I have no idea where you got your information.
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3 wives, 2 children.
Wives names correct given above
Child 1 with first wife(Cornelia) named Julia and was married to Pompey.
Child 2 with Cleopatra, Some say murdered, others say went to egypt and ruled.
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I was curious about this myself as I always knew he had three wives.  But the reason I looked it up is because Plutarch states (unless it's a misprint by the interpreter) that "Caesar took for his third wife Pompeia."  And I always thought she was his second???  That's what got me confused.
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Thank you for this helpful information with Julius Caesar. It really helped with my Roman Newspaper project! I was doing an obituary.
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I've been resarching this topic for the past 15 years with harvard latin scholars and have come to the conclusion that caesar has 4,267 wives
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He had 86 wives! I have no idea what yal people be talkin bout! He had one or two for each day! He needed to get it on!!!!!  (//_^)

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