The Bure Kin

The gold star in the upper part of the armiger's arms honours the Bure kin: a wide northern Swedish kinship tradition associated with Västerbotten and the Bureå area, long treated in Swedish genealogy as a significant early lineage. In the early modern period the Bure tradition was also brought into formal noble record-keeping, and a later branch was ennobled and introduced at the Riddarhuset as the noble house Bure (no. 126).

A central figure in the Bure story is Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), Sweden's first National Antiquarian, who also compiled an extensive genealogical work that gave the Bure tradition a durable written form. Modern scholarship typically distinguishes between (a) the broad, culturally important "Bure kin" tradition and (b) the narrower, legally defined introduced noble house (no. 126), which belongs to Sweden's system of introduced nobility.

For the purposes of this site, the Bure motif functions as a genealogical signpost: it marks a Swedish ancestral strand on the paternal side of the armiger's family history, and it points to an older Scandinavian backdrop that complements the Coley–Vachell thread entering Sweden in the early eighteenth century.

Further Reading:

• Riddarhuset (MINERVA): Bure (no. 126).
• Elgenstierna, Gustaf (ed.). Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor.
• Johannes Bureus (Riksantikvarie) – biographical overviews and reference entries.