Editing Emiliano Zapata (section)

=== Children ===
As far as is known, Zapata fathered a total of 16 documented children with 9 women, but it has also been commented that there were actually 14 women with whom he had relationships.<ref name="biblioteca">{{cite web|url=https://image1.slideserve.com/2918857/slide1-l.jpg|title=Árbol Genealógico de Emiliano Zapata |work=slideserve |access-date=19 April 2023|language=es-MX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419215340/https://image1.slideserve.com/2918857/slide1-l.jpg |archive-date=19 April 2023 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* With Inés Alfaro Aguilar he procreated his first five documented children: Guadalupe, Nicolás, Juan, Ponciano and María Elena.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* When the Porfirian dictatorship fell, on 20 August 1911, he married Miss Josefa Espejo Merino known as "La Generala" ([[Anenecuilco|San Miguel de Anenecuilco]], Wednesday 19 March 1879 – Villa de Ayala, Friday, 8 August 1968),<ref name="biblioteca"/> daughter of Don Fidencio Espejo and Guadalupe Sánchez Merino, with whom he had two children. The first, a boy named Felipe Zapata Espejo, was born around 1912 on El Jilguero hill and died at the age of five, around 1917, in one of the many shelters that the family had, after being bitten by a [[Crotalus durissus|rattlesnake]].<ref name="biblioteca"/> The second child was a girl, Josefa Zapata Espejo, born around 1913 in Tlaltizapán and who died a year before Felipe, around 1916, as a result of a scorpion sting.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* With Margarita Sáenz Ugalde (23 July 1899, in Yautepec, Morelos – 17 March 1974, in [[Mexico City]]),<ref name="biblioteca"/> he had three children: Luis Eugenio (2 December 1914, in Tlapehuala, Guerrero – 10 October 1979, in Mexico City), Margarita and Gabriel Zapata Sáenz, the latter two of whom died shortly after birth.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* With Petra Portillo Torres,<ref name="obit CNN">{{cite news|title=La hija del general Emiliano Zapata murió el domingo en Cuautla|url=http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2010/03/01/la-hija-del-general-emiliano-zapata-murio-el-domingo-en-cuautla|access-date=1 August 2015|agency=EFE|publisher=CNN Mexico|date=1 March 2020|location=Mexico City, Mexico|language=es|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408064155/http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2010/03/01/la-hija-del-general-emiliano-zapata-murio-el-domingo-en-cuautla|archive-date=8 April 2015}}</ref> he had a daughter, [[Paulina Ana María Zapata Portillo|Ana María Zapata Portillo]], born on 22 June 1915, in Cuautla. She was aware of her father's legacy from a very early age, and this made her continue his work of dedication to agrarian rights, serving as treasurer of the ''[[ejido]]'' of Cuautla, as ''ejidataria'' of Cuautla, as municipal councilor and municipal trustee.<ref name="Obit La Jornada Morelos">{{cite news |first= Fernando|last= Baltazar|title=Murió Ana María Zapata Portillo, última sobreviviente reconocida por El Caudillo |url=http://www.lajornadamorelos.com/noticias/politica/84295?task=view |access-date=1 August 2015 |publisher=La Jornada Morelos |date=1 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303144149/http://www.lajornadamorelos.com/noticias/politica/84295?task=view |archive-date=3 March 2010 |location=Morelos, Mexico |language=es}}</ref> She died on 28 February 2010, in Cuautla, and was buried in the Municipal Pantheon of Cuautla.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* With María de Jesús Pérez Caballero, native of Coahuixtla, he had Mateo Emiliano Zapata Pérez, who was born on 21 September 1917, in Temilpa Viejo, Tlaltizapán, Morelos, and died on 10 January 2007, in Cuautla. He was buried in the Cuautla Municipal Pantheon.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* With Georgina Piñeiro, he had Diego Zapata Piñeiro, who was born in Tlaltizapán on 13 December 1916, and died on 20 December 2008, in Mexico City. He was buried in the Cuautla Municipal Pantheon.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* With Gregoria Zúñiga Benítez, he had María Luisa Zapata Zúñiga, born in Quilamula, Morelos, on 21 June 1916, and died in 1935 of meningitis, leaving no descendants.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* He did not leave descendants with Luz Zúñiga Benítez, although according to historian Carlos Barreto Mark, there is a version that she had a child, who apparently died at birth.<ref name="biblioteca"/>
* With Agapita Sánchez, he had Carlota Zapata Sánchez, born in Huitzilac, Morelos, in 1913 and died in Jiutepec, Morelos, on 22 April 2014, aged 100.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2014/04/22/955218|title=Carlota, última hija de Emiliano Zapata muere a los 100 años
|work=Excelsior |access-date=19 April 2023 |date=22 April 2014 |language=es-MX |first= Pedro |last=Tonantzin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701003131/http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2014/04/22/955218 |archive-date=1 July 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* With Matilde Vázquez, he had Gabriel Zapata Vázquez.<ref name="biblioteca"/>

There is a version of the existence of another son, José Zapata, of an unknown mother, but the validity of the latter is not fully proven.<ref name="biblioteca"/>