| This difference in title was not due to any inferiority in terms of ancestry on the part of the Shimo Reizei family; rather, the murder of the family head by the Bessho clan and the loss of land in the period of Warring States subsequently affected their official rank in the Meiji Period. |
下冷泉家も、家系的には全く劣るものではなかったが、戦国時代に別所氏によって当主が殺され、所領を失ったことが後々官位にも響き、明治期の爵位の差となった。 |