<Tr> <Th> 69 </Th> <Td> Mrs. and Mr. Feodor Vassilyev (1st wife) </Td> <Td> Vassilyev and his first wife are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has parented . She gave birth to a total of 69 children--sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets--between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 births . 67 of the 69 children were said to have survived infancy . Allegedly Vassilyev also had six sets of twins and two sets of triplets with a second wife, for another 18 children in eight births; he fathered a total of 87 children . The claim is disputed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 62 </Th> <Td> Mr. and Mrs. Gravata </Td> <Td> A Tuscan woman named Gravata gave birth to a total of 62 live children . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 57 </Th> <Td> Mrs. and Mr. Yakov Kirillov </Td> <Td> The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births . She had four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and ten sets of twins . All of the children were alive in 1755, when Kirillov, aged 60, was presented at court . As with the Vassilyev case, the truth of these claims has not been established, and is highly improbable . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 53 </Th> <Td> Barbara and Adam Stratzmann </Td> <Td> It is claimed that Barbara Stratzmann (c. 1448--1503) of Bönnigheim, Germany, gave birth to 53 children (38 sons and 15 daughters) in a total of 29 births by 1498 . She had one set of septuplets, one set of sextuplets, four sets of triplets and five sets of twins . Nineteen of the children were stillborn, the eldest surviving was eight years old in 1498 . As with the Vassilyev and Kirillov cases above, the survival of any one of the offspring of the alleged multiple births is questionable, as is the likelihood of so many multiple births in an era before fertility drugs . </Td> </Tr>

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