However, Yorimori did receive preferential treatment as the only child of the legal wife of Tadamori, and was appointed to the post of Hitachi no suke at the age of 17, inheriting the position of Iemori.
それでも頼盛は正室のただ一人の子として優遇されていて、家盛の地位を継承して17歳で常陸介に任じられている。