Sanekiyo SANJONISHI, the child of Kintoki, was promoted only to the post of chunagon (vice-councilor of state), but in the next generation Kinyasu SANJONISHI was adopted from the Ogimachi-Sanjo Family (the head family) and inherited the house status of the biological parents' house in order to obtain the house status of a ministerial house.
公時の子の三条西実清は中納言で止まったものの、その次の世代の三条西公保は本家である正親町三条家から養子に入り、生家の家格を引き継いだため、大臣家の家格を有することとなった。