Among the Empress Jito's descendents who demoted from nobility to subject, her great-great-great-great grandchild Mineo no Miko (Prince Mineo) received the surname of TAKASHINA no Mahito in 844, and became an ancestor of the Takashina clan.
臣籍降下した中では承和(日本)11年（844年）に昆孫の峯緒王が高階真人姓を賜り高階氏の祖となった。