In the Higo Hosokawa family, there were the Nagaoka-naizen family and the Nagaoka-Gyobu family as senior vassals of the lord family, and the branch clan of Shinden (Takase) and the branch clan of Uto as branch domains.
肥後細川家には藩主一門重臣として長岡内膳家と長岡刑部家があり、支藩としては新田（高瀬）支藩と宇土支藩があった。