Tadakatsu was a Honda clan member as the oldest Anjo fudai (a fudai daimyo who had been serving Ieyasu since he was in Anjo) for the Anjo-Matsudaira family (the head family of the Tokugawa), born the first son of Tadataka HONDA in Kuramae, Mikawa Province (present Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture) in 1548. 安祥松平家(徳川本家)の最古参の安祥譜代の本多氏で、本多忠高の長男として天文17年(1548年)、三河国蔵前(現在の愛知県岡崎市)で生まれる。 |