Kitabatake clan

A nobleman during the Kamakura and Nanboku-cho periods. Along with the Anegakoji clan (Hida) and the Ichijo clan (Tosa), they were known as one of the three governor families. Descended from the Murakami-Genji clan, Nakanoin Masaie, the grandson of the fifth head of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Michichika, adopted the family name Kitabatake due to his place of residence in Kyoto. His great-grandson Chikafusa was highly valued by Emperor Godaigo and greatly increased his family's name. Together with Chikafusa's son Akiie, he played an active role as a senior vassal of the Southern Court during the Nanboku-cho period, and Chikafusa was proclaimed a quasi-empress by Emperor Go-Murakami. Chikafusa's son Akiyoshi was appointed governor of Ise Province by the Southern Court, built Tage Castle in Ichishi County, and played an active role on the side of the Southern Court. His descendants continued to hold the position as governor of Ise Province. Akiyoshi's grandson Mitsumasa raised an army in 1428 (Shocho 1) to support Prince Ogura, a descendant of the Southern Court, but was defeated and killed. The Okawachi clan and other clans also had many in Ise Province and maintained their influence until the end of the Sengoku period, but were destroyed by Oda Nobunaga in 1576 (Tensho 4).

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鎌倉・南北朝時代の公卿(くぎょう)。姉小路(あねがこうじ)氏（飛騨(ひだ)）、一条家（土佐）と並んで三国司家といわれた。村上源氏の流れで、5代源通親(みなもとのみちちか)の孫中院雅家(なかのいんまさいえ)が、京都の居住地によって北畠を家名とした。その曽孫(そうそん)親房(ちかふさ)は後醍醐天皇(ごだいごてんのう)に重用されて大いに家名をあげ、親房の子顕家(あきいえ)とともに南北朝時代に南朝の重臣として活躍し、親房は後村上天皇(ごむらかみてんのう)から准后(じゅごう)の宣を受けた。親房の子顕能(あきよし)は南朝から伊勢(いせ)国司に任じられ、一志(いちし)郡多気城(たげじょう)を築いて南朝方として活躍し、以後子孫は伊勢国司を世襲した。顕能の孫満雅(みつまさ)は、1428年（正長1）南朝の後胤(こういん)小倉宮(おぐらのみや)を奉じて挙兵し、敗死している。大河内(おおかわち)氏など一族も伊勢国内に多く、戦国末期まで勢力を維持したが、1576年（天正4）織田信長に滅ぼされた。

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