Takasu, Saijo and Takamatsu Domains were renshi of the Owari, Kishu and Mito families, respectively, and their family names were all Matsudaira; even in Gosanke, only the family heads and their heirs were privileged to use the name of Tokugawa as the names of others were Matsudaira.
尾張家の連枝・高須藩、紀州家の連枝・西条藩、水戸家の連枝・高松藩など、いずれも松平姓の諸藩である（なお、御三家も当主及び世子のみが徳川姓を許され、それ以外は松平姓である）。