He is believed to have been called 'Kyonokimi' in relation with his father-in-law, Naganari ICHIJO, to whom his mother remarried, and it seems that he served Ene through his father-in-law's connections.
「卿公」は母が再婚した養父の一条長成にちなむ命名と考えられるので、養父の縁故によって円恵に仕えたと見られる。