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Matsudaira Sadakatsu (松平 定勝, 1560 – May 1, 1624), also known as Hisamatsu Sadakatsu (久松 定勝), was a Japanese daimyō and military commander of the early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He was the half-brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu and a founding member of the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira clan.
Branches of the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira ruled the Kuwana, Imabari, and Iyo-Matsuyama domains. Famous Hisamatsu-Matsudaira include the political reformer Matsudaira Sadanobu, the final Kyoto Shoshidai Matsudaira Sadaaki, and shogunate politician Itakura Katsukiyo.
Birth: 1560. Death: 1624. Distinction: Tokugawa retainer. Sadakatsu was a son of Hisamatsu Sado no kami Toshikatsu and Tokugawa Ieyasu's half-brother by virtue of sharing the same mother. After the Sekigahara Campaign ( 1600 ), Sadakatsu was given Kakegawa in Tôtômi province (recently vacated by Yamanouchi Kazutoyo ).
Sadakatsu Matsudaira was the lord of the Yamashiro Fushimi domain and had a koku of 50,000 koku, which he increased by 60,000 koku to 110,000 koku when he joined the Kuwana domain. Sadakatsu was mainly active in important positions in the shogunate, including serving as an advisor to the second shogun, Hidetada Tokugawa, until his death in 1624.
The strategic Kuwana Domain was then assigned to Ieyasu’s half-brother, Hisamatsu Sadakatsu, whose descendants ruled until they were transferred to Takada Domain in Echigo Province in 1710, and their place taken by the Okudaira branch of the Matsudaira clan, who ruled to 1823, when a branch of the Hisamatsu returned to Kuwana from ...
The Hisamatsu-Matsudaira (久松松平家 Hisamatsu-Matsudaira-ke) or Hisamatsu (久松氏 Hisamatsu-shi) were a samurai family (武家 buke) that descended from Tokugawa Ieyasu's three half-brothers and thus belonged to the Matsudaira clan. With an income of 150,000 koku, the Hisamatsu residing in Matsuyama (Ehime Prefecture) and Kuwana ( Mie ...
second son of Hisamatsu Sadakatsu 久松定勝 (1560-1624), the younger half-brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 (1543-1616). Sadayuki’s father had built his career following Ieyasu, and their blood ties, together with Sadakatsu’s loyal service, granted him Ieyasu’s permission to use the surname Matsudaira, making
