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Did Miguel de Cervantes have any children?

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Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma. — Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes, engraving by E. Mackenzie after Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma; from *The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography* (1863).

Yes, Miguel de Cervantes had one child. He fathered a daughter named Isabel de Saavedra during an affair with a young married woman named Ana de Villafranca (also known as Ana Franca de Rojas). Isabel was later raised in her father's household.1