[5] Andreas, otherwise commonly believed not to have left any descendants,[6] died poor in Rome in 1502.
[7] British historian Donald Nicol also believed Constantine to have been a son of Andreas,[2] as does genealogist Peter Mallat.
[8] It is possible that he can be identified with a "Constantinus de Morea", mentioned as the receiver of a pension by Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484–1492).
[5] The known members of the Imperial Palaiologos dynasty were rendered extinct shortly thereafter with the deaths of Andreas's brother Manuel Palaiologos in the reign of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512)[10] and the death of Manuel's son Andreas in the reign of sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566).
[11] British historian Russell Foster considered Constantine a suitable end to the line of Roman emperors, writing:[1] Andreas' only son, Constantine Palaiologos, the last male heir of the Roman Imperial line traceable back to Julius Caesar, died in 1508 as a common soldier in Rome – a fitting end to fifteen centuries of Roman Imperators.