Matsudaira Hirotada

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Matsudaira Hirotada (Japanese 松 平 広 忠; * 1526 ; † 1549 ) was lord of the castle of Okazaki and head of the Matsudaira in the middle of the 16th century .

Life

Matsudaira Hirotada was the son of Matsudaira Kiyoyasu , who ruled in the Mikawa province and was lord of Okazaki since 1524. After the violent death of his father in 1536, Hirotada succeeded him in Mikawa; he was supported in this by the Imagawa , whose vassal he became. He fought for the Imagawa against Oda Nobuhide in the Battle of Azukizaka . In 1549, Matsudaira Hirotada died of an illness.

progeny

In 1541 Matsudaira married Hirotada Odai no kata . With her he had a son, Matsudaira Takechiyo , who later became the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate .

Posthumous honors

As the ancestor of the Tokugawa, he was honored posthumously several times during the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate. In 1612 he was given the title Dainagon (大 納 言). In 1849 the emperor awarded him the title Dajô Daijin and he was given the name Seiretsu-in.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Turnbull: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oxford 2012. pp. 7ff.
  2. ^ Mary Elizabeth Berry: Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period, Berkeley 2007, p. 120.
personal data
SURNAME Matsudaira, Hirotada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松 平 広 忠 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of the castle of Okazaki and head of the Matsudaira
DATE OF BIRTH 1526
DATE OF DEATH 1549