He was known to have adopted out his fifth son to Kyogoku family of Toyooka Domain in Tajima Province, the Kyogoku family which was the same kin and a descendant of Takatomo KYOGOKU who had been the founder of the domain and governed the whole of Tango Province, as was the Kyogoku family of Mineyama Domain, Tango Province.
丹後峰山藩京極家と同じく、藩祖で丹後一国を支配した京極高知の子孫で同族に当たる但馬豊岡藩京極家に五男・高有を養子に出したことでも知られる。