Families that were acknowledged as monyo were called gomonyo and treated second to the shogun family in social status; this drew the line at other gokenin (an immediate vassal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods).
これを認められた家は御門葉と呼ばれ、格式では将軍家に次ぐ扱いを受け、他の御家人と一線を画した。