5. Caesar only had one known son-the Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy XV
While in Egypt to restore its Roman protectorate status, Caesar fell in love with Cleopatra-the Greek-descended queen of Egypt’s Ptolemaic line of rulers. Around the year 47 BC, she gave birth to Caesarion (“Little Caesar”). According to tradition, Caesarion was Julius Caesar’s son. Caesar had no other known sons.
While Caesarion would eventually ascend the Egyptian throne as Ptolemy XV, he was viewed as a threat by his father’s successor, Octavian (Augustus Caesar). Soon after the military defeat and deaths of Cleopatra and her lover Mark Anthony, Ptolemy XV was murdered.
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