Until that time, the Fujiwara clan was the only clan among the Imperial retainers and clans that had produced those empresses, and therefore, the fact that an empress was born from the Tachibana clan elevated the position of the Tachibana clan in the aristocratic society.
当時、皇后を輩出した臣下氏族は藤原氏のみであり、橘氏からの立后は貴族社会における橘氏の地位を上昇させた。