Editing Julius Caesar (section)

====Posterity====
{{main|Julio-Claudian family tree}}
{{wide image|Roman families 4 Nov 08.png|1000px|Julio-Claudian family tree}}
;Wives{{anchor|Wives}}
* First marriage to [[Cornelia (wife of Caesar)|Cornelia]], from 84&nbsp;BC until her death in 69 BC
* Second marriage to [[Pompeia (wife of Julius Caesar)|Pompeia]], from 67&nbsp;BC until he divorced her around 61&nbsp;BC over the [[Publius Clodius Pulcher#Bona Dea scandal|Bona Dea scandal]]
* Third marriage to [[Calpurnia (wife of Caesar)|Calpurnia]], from 59&nbsp;BC until Caesar's death

[[File:Denderah3 Cleopatra Cesarion.jpg|thumb|Reliefs of [[Cleopatra]] and her son by Julius Caesar, [[Caesarion]], at the [[Dendera Temple complex|Temple of Dendera]]]]
[[File:Roman Wall painting from the House of Giuseppe II, Pompeii, 1st century AD, death of Sophonisba, but more likely Cleopatra VII of Egypt consuming poison.jpg|thumb|[[Roman art|Roman painting]] from the House of Giuseppe II, [[Pompeii]], early 1st century AD, most likely depicting [[Cleopatra VII]], wearing her royal [[diadem]], [[Death of Cleopatra|consuming poison in an act of suicide]], while her son [[Caesarion]], also wearing a royal diadem, stands behind her<ref>{{cite book |last=Roller |first=Duane W |author-link=Duane W. Roller |title=Cleopatra: a biography |year=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-536553-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/cleopatrabiograp00roll_0/ |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cleopatrabiograp00roll_0/page/178 178–79]}}</ref>]]

;Children
* [[Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)|Julia]], by Cornelia, born in 83 or 82 BC
* [[Caesarion]], by [[Cleopatra VII]], born 47 BC, and killed at age 17 by Caesar's adopted son Octavianus.
* ''Posthumously adopted'': [[Augustus|Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus]], his great-nephew by blood (grandson of [[Julia Minor (sister of Caesar)|Julia, his sister]]), who later became Emperor Augustus.

; Suspected children
Some ancient sources refer to the possibility of the tyrannicide, [[Marcus Junius Brutus]], being one of Julius Caesar's illegitimate children.<ref>Eg {{harvnb|Plut. ''Brut.''|loc=5.2}}</ref> Caesar, at the time Brutus was born, was 15. Most ancient historians were sceptical of this and "on the whole, scholars have rejected the possibility that Brutus was the love-child of Servilia and Caesar on the grounds of chronology".<ref>{{harvnb|Tempest|2017|p=102}}, noting the "almost universally accepted" treatment rejecting Caesar's parentage at {{cite wikisource |last=Fluß |first=Max |wslink=RE:Servilius 101 |title=Servilius 101 |encyclopedia=Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft |year=1923 |volume=II A,2 |publisher=Butcher |location=Stuttgart |wslanguage=de |at=cols. 1817–21}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Syme|first=Ronald|date=1960|title=Bastards in the Roman Aristocracy|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/985248|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society|volume=104|issue=3 |issn=0003-049X |page=326 |jstor=985248|quote=Chronology is against Caesar's paternity.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Syme|first=Ronald|date=1980|title=No Son for Caesar?|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4435732|journal=Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte|volume=29|issue=4|page=426|jstor=4435732|issn=0018-2311 |quote=Caesar is excluded by plain fact}}.</ref>

;Grandchildren
Grandchild from [[Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)|Julia]] and [[Pompey]], dead at several days, unnamed.<ref name="Jimenez2000">{{harvnb|Jiménez|2000|p=55}}.</ref>

;Lovers
* [[Cleopatra]], mother of [[Caesarion]]
* [[Servilia (mother of Brutus)|Servilia]], mother of Brutus
* [[Eunoë (wife of Bogudes)|Eunoë]], queen of [[Mauretania]] and wife of [[Bogud]]es