Date clan 伊達氏

The Date family was founded in the early Kamakura period (1185-1333) by Isa Tomomune who originally came from the Isa district of Hitachi Province (now Ibaraki Prefecture), and was a descendant of Fujiwara no Uona (721-783) in the 16th generation. The family took its name from the Date district (now Fukushima Prefecture) of Mutsu Province which had been awarded in 1189 to Isa Tomomune by Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first Kamakura shogun, for his assistance in the Genpei War and in Minamoto no Yoritomo’s struggle for power with his brother, Minamoto no Yoshitsune. During the Nanboku-cho Wars in the 1330s, the Date supported the Imperial Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo through Kitabatake Akiie, who had been appointed by the Emperor Chinjufu Shōgun or Commander in Chief of the Defense of the North. As warlords gained and lost power in the Sengoku period, trying to unite the country, the Date, along with a handful of other powerful families, did all they could to retain independence and dominance over their section of the land (in the case of the Date, the far north). Though not gaining the fame or power of the likes of Oda Nobunaga, Uesugi Kenshin, or Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they resisted the invasions of these warlords into the north. Date Masamune (1566–1636) contributed in particular to this effort, consolidating the families of the north into alliances against the major warlords.
The Date clan (伊達氏, Date-shi) was a lineage of daimyo who controlled northern Japan (the Tōhoku region) in the late 16th century and into the Edo period. Their most famous member was Date Masamune, who established the family's power by avenging his father's death and through support of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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☯ --------.: Royal Family :.--------
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☯ - Emperor -: {LEONTES}_Alexander the Great
☯ - Head Supervisor -: {LEONTES}_Antonis
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☯ - Commander of the Forces -: {LEONTES}_PeLLaSgOs
☯ - Officer of Infantry -: Re Carlo Alberto I di Savoia
☯ - Officer of Cavalry -: {LEONTES}_Themistokles
☯ - Officer of Navy -: TTC Shogun Takeda Shingen 風林
☯ - Officer of Siege -: |LVG]TTC Takeda Yoshiaki
☯ - No-Dachi Samurai Lord -: HDB}Kazuma孫TOKU子Koizumi{MGL
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☯ --------.: Provinces under Date Control :.--------
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☯ - Fukushima -: {LEONTES}_PeLLaSgOs
☯ - Miyagi -: {LEONTES}_HliasGR
☯ - Iwate -: {LEONTES}_Dellodas
☯ - Ugo -: {LEONTES}_Aias
☯ - Uzen -: {LEONTES}_Alcibiades
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☯ --------.: Alliance & Trade agreements :.--------
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☯ - See them on our Date Clan's website
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Date clan[en.wikipedia.org]
Date Clan's website[thedateclan.webs.com]