The Keicho family that was successively appointed to bakufu kanrei refers to the descendant of Yorimoto HOSOKAWA, Yoriharu's younger brother who later became Yoriharu's adopted child, and the many of other powerful branch families were also derived in the period of Yoriharu.
代々幕府の管領に任ぜられることになる京兆家は、頼之の弟でその養子となった細川頼元の後裔を指し、その他の有力な庶家も、多くは頼之の時代に派生している。