Disappointed Tadakata burned down the Anegakoji family documents handed down from their ancestors (in the court noble society, a loss of the family documents meant de facto extinction of family name), and went into priesthood, and then, died of disease at an early age of 42.
忠方は失意のうちに姉小路家伝来の文書を焼き捨てて（公家社会では事実上の家名の断絶を意味する）出家し、42歳の若さで病死した。