Leonid dynasty

Another relative whose name does not survive of Leo I or his wife Verina married the future augustus Julius Nepos (r. 474–480), the last emperor in the Western Roman Empire.

When Leo II died in the year of his grandfather's death, Zeno remained augustus in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Leontia's husband Marcianus, the grandson of the augustus Marcian (r. 450–457) through his mother Marcia Euphemia, also attempted a usurpation of Zeno, together with his brothers Procopius Anthemius and Romulus.

When Zeno died, Ariadne married the silentarius Anastasius Dicorus and he was acclaimed and crowned augustus.

Anastasius's brother Paulus's daughter Irene was married to Olybrius Junior, the grandson of the augustus Olybrius through his mother, the patricia Anicia Juliana and thus the most significant descendant of the Valentinianic–Theodosian imperial line and ignored in the succession on the death of Zeno.