He was the 7th lord of the Itoigawa Domain in Echigo Province (the 9th head of a branch family of Echizen Matsudaira family) and the 17th lord of the Fukui Domain, and after the Meiji Restoration, he became governor of the Fukui Domain.
越後国糸魚川藩第7代藩主（越前松平家分家9代）、福井藩第17代の藩主であり、維新後は福井藩知事となる。