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He married the First Princess (daughter of [[Emperor Reigen]]) in [[1683]],<ref>Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 16.</ref> and had two children with her before her tragic death in childbirth on [[1688]]/4/15. Afterward, his mother Shinanomiya took over much of the work of caring for and raising Iehiro's two children, though he and the children visited one another constantly. His daughter Tokugimi went on to marry [[Tokudaiji Kintomo]], and his son [[Konoe Iehisa]] followed in his father's footsteps, serving as ''sesshô'', ''kanpaku'', and ''dajô daijin'', and being granted the rank of ''jugô'' (aka ''jusangô''<!--准后, 准三后-->), second in rank only to emperors and empresses, the latter an honor that Iehiro himself had declined.<ref>Segawa Seigle, 4, 22.</ref>

He married the First Princess (daughter of [[Emperor Reigen]]) in [[1683]],<ref>Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 16.</ref> and had two children with her before her tragic death in childbirth on [[1688]]/4/15. Afterward, his mother Shinanomiya took over much of the work of caring for and raising Iehiro's two children, though he and the children visited one another constantly. His daughter Tokugimi went on to marry [[Tokudaiji Kintomo]], and his son [[Konoe Iehisa]] followed in his father's footsteps, serving as ''sesshô'', ''kanpaku'', and ''dajô daijin'', and being granted the rank of ''jugô'' (aka ''jusangô''<!--准后, 准三后-->), second in rank only to emperors and empresses, the latter an honor that Iehiro himself had declined.<ref>Segawa Seigle, 4, 22.</ref>

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