The article is devoted to such a unique phenomenon in the history of the Sovereign court of the 17th century as the presence in its composition of the special rank of patriarchal stewards during the reign of Patriarch Filaret (1619−1633). The main attention in the article is paid to the question of the social origin of Filaret's stewards and the ways of getting into this rank, which is still insufficiently studied in historiography. Based on data from boyar lists, boyar books and other sources, the article considers the personal and family composition of the stewards of Patriarch Filaret, data on their relatives is analyzed. Despite the fact that the stewards of Patriarch Filaret, in contrast to the royal stewards, for the most part came from non-pedigree noble families, they were by no means random people at court, but were from clans, whose representatives in the Time of Troubles and after the Time of Troubles began to establish themselves in the composition the highest ranks of the Moscow nobility. Recruiting young and often underage people to serve as stewards, Patriarch Filaret took into account not only their personal merits, but the position at the court of their fathers and other relatives. The very fact of awarding the patriarchal stewards can be considered as an indicator of the disposition to this surname at court and personally on the part of Filaret. Through the rank of patriarchal stewards, many representatives of the new service clans entered the ruling elite.