The Urin Family was of the house status of kuge (court nobility) subsequent to the Kamakura period; it was inferior to the sekke (the house of regents), Seigake (one of the statuses of court nobility that was inferior to the sekke but superior to the minister) and the house of minister, but it was equal to meike (kuge), a kuge of lower rank, and superior to hange (kuge), a kuge of lower rank.
羽林家（うりんけ）は、鎌倉時代以降の公家の家格のひとつで、摂家、清華家、大臣家の下、名家(公家)と同列、半家(公家)の上の序列に位置する。