Though the family name Kinkane SAIONJI was succeeded by his child, Saneatsu SAIONJI and the family of Kinkane became a branch line of the Saionji family, it broke off in the generation of Sanetane SAIONJI who was the child of Saneatsu without a biological child before it was established as a branch line.
西園寺公兼の名跡は子の西園寺実敦に受け継がれ、公兼の家は西園寺家の分流的存在となったが、分家として定着する前に実敦の子西園寺実種の代に実子なく絶えた。