Saitō Dōsan
In 1549, Nobuhide made peace with Dōsan by arranging a political marriage between his eldest son, Oda Nobunaga, and Saitō Dōsan daughter, Nōhime. Dōsan supported the marriage which allowed Nobuhide focus on facing Yoshimoto. In one of his moments of glory, Nobuhide managed to capture Matsudaira Motoyasu (later known Tokugawa Ieyasu), son of Matsudaira Hirotada as a hostage en route to Yoshimoto, and was thus able to gain some footholds into Mikawa.