The Descendants of Masanori, Hiromoto's elder brother, remained as officials of the Imperial court and called themselves the Kitakoji family from the end of the Muromachi period and, during the Edo Period, three families (two as kurodo - chamberlain and one as Shodaibu [aristocracy lower than Kugyo] of the Konoe family) appeared as Jige-ke (family status of non-noble retainers who are not allowed into the Emperor's living quarters in the imperial palace).
また、広元の兄匡範の子孫は宮廷官人として残り、室町時代後半からは北小路家を称し、江戸時代は地下家として3家（蔵人2家、近衛家諸大夫1家）を輩出した。