At that time, Bakufu (Shogunate) treated the Honda family, the ruler of Echizen City (the area previously known as Fusho City), with the equivalent of a Daimyo treatment as a baishin (indirect vassals) of the Echizen-fukui Domain, however in the peerage system established by the Meiji government, the lord Sukemoto HONDA was ranked as a Shizoku (warrior class) not Kazoku (the peerage).
当時、越前市（旧武生市に相当）を治めていた本多家は、越前福井藩の陪臣として幕府から大名格の処遇を得てきたが、明治政府が制定した華族制度では、当主の本多副元が華族でなく士族とされた。