Matsudaira Sadakatsu

Japanese: 松平定勝 - まつだいら・さだかつ

Year of death: 14 March 1624 (1624.5.1)
Year of birth: 1560
Lord of Kakegawa, Totomi and Kuwana, Ise in the early Edo period. Half-brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Lord of Oki. Born as the fourth son of a small feudal lord in Owari, Hisamatsu Toshikatsu, in Akoi Castle, Chita County, Owari (Usaka, Agui-cho, Aichi Prefecture). His mother was Ieyasu's birth mother, Mizuno, and later married Toshikatsu, so Ieyasu bestowed the surname Matsudaira on him. He served Ieyasu, and in 1601 he was given a fief of 30,000 koku in Kakegawa, in 1619 he became the castellan of Fushimi Castle with a fief of 50,000 koku, and in 1620 he guarded Fushimi Castle during the Winter Siege of Osaka, and Nijo Castle during the Summer Siege the following year. In 1617 he was given a fief of 110,000 koku in Kuwana, and in 1623 he was given a fief of 117,000 koku in 1624. In Kuwana he expanded the castle and developed the area around it, while also taking care to develop new fields. <References> Arai Hakuseki's Hanhanpu, Nozawa Shosui's Yomatsu Goyokan (Iyo History Society Books, Volume 8), Kondo Moku's Kuwana City History

(Negishi Shigeo)

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Japanese:

没年：寛永1.3.14(1624.5.1)
生年：永禄3(1560)
江戸前期の遠江掛川,伊勢桑名藩主。徳川家康の異父弟。隠岐守。尾張の小大名久松俊勝の4男として尾張知多郡阿古居城(愛知県阿久比町卯坂)に生まれる。母が家康の生母水野氏で,のち俊勝に嫁したため,家康より松平姓を賜る。家康に仕え,慶長6(1601)年掛川3万石,12年伏見城代となり5万石,19年大坂冬の陣には伏見城,翌年の夏の陣には二条城を守衛した。元和3(1617)年桑名11万石,6年に11万7000石となる。桑名では城を拡張して城下を整備する一方,新田開発などにも意を用いていた。<参考文献>新井白石『藩翰譜』,野沢象水『予松御代鑑』(伊予史談会双書8巻),近藤杢編『桑名市史』

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