The Matsudono Family, established as a house of Regents and Senior Regents was, in theory, ranked at the same level as the houses of Regents such as the Konoe family and the Kujo family in the Court nobility.
松殿家（まつどのけ）は、摂関家として創設され、『本来であれば』摂家の近衛家・九条家に並ぶ序列の公家である。