Shigeharu may have either divorced his lawful wife, who was Nobutsugu ODA's daughter, or died young himself, on the grounds that the lawful wife remarried Tadatoshi MIBU of the Mibu Kanmu family (the term 'kanmu' was the collective name of the offices of the sadaishi [senior recorder of the left] and the udaishi [senior recorder of the right] which had been inherited exclusively by the Mibu family since the Sengoku [Warring States] period).
正室織田信次の娘がその後、壬生官務家の壬生忠利に再嫁していることから、離縁したか本人が若くして死亡したものと思われる。