Although in the house of a branch line the house status excelled as compared with the head family (the Ogimachi-Sanjo Family), it was exceptionally ranked among the three houses of ministers and frequently produced ministers of the right from the Muromachi period through the early Edo period; therefore, the house status was considered to be approximately equivalent to seigake (one of the statuses of court nobility that is inferior to Sekke but superior to minister).
閑院家嫡流の転法輪三条家にも、たびたび養子をだしたため、戦国時代(日本)以降の転法輪三条家の直接の血統は三条西家のものである。