They had a family line in the western area of Bizen Province in the late Muromachi period; another in Kyoto as a shogun's retainer in the Muromachi period; the head family of the Sagami Matsuda family serving for the Kaga Maeda family after serving for the Odawara Gohojo family; and the Yuki family and a family line serving as a hatamoto (direct retainers of the Edo bakufu) of the Tokugawa Shogun family as its branch families.
室町時代後期に備前国西部一帯に存在した家系、室町時代に幕臣として京都に存在した家系、また、小田原後北条氏に仕えた後に加賀前田家に召抱えられた相模松田家本家、その分家は結城家、徳川将軍家旗本になった家系がある。