Marriage and matrimonial strategy constitute a basic means of social reproduction. By the same token, spouse selection and marital union are socially charged affairs that validate the concept of marriage market. However, a unitary treatment of the social reproduction of the Ottoman élite is curiously absent. On the one hand, we have a catalogue of royal marriages and sons-in-law culled from multiple archival sources that rarely ventures beyond royal appanage. On the other hand, we have familial profiles for several towns in Anatolia and Syria mostly based on probate inventories and court records, as part of family history and politics of notability. Thus, current research is biased towards a court-centric model of imperial politics. It hardly distinguishes between the roles and actions of the court members and simply reports an aggregate effect. Moreover, the prevalent factionalism of the imperial politics does not meet an analysis of the matrimonial strategies of the pasha households and the officialdom, hence the implication on honors, entitlement, and social stratification is amiss. The paper addresses this imbalance and research lacuna by means of a mixed-methods approach combining social network analysis and qualitative comparative analysis. Consequently, if we inquire into the coherence and longevity of the Ottoman élite, a comprehensive analysis of kinship ties is the crux of social reproduction against assets drawn from official positions and courtly circumstances.