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).
分家でありながら家格は本家の正親町三条家をしのぎ、三大臣家の中でも格別とされ、室町時代から江戸時代初期にかけ右大臣をたびたび輩出したため、その家格は清華家とほぼ同格とみなされていた。