Bure kinship

The Bure kinship (Swedish: Bureätten) is a renowned Scandinavian kinship, centered during the late Middle Ages strongly in the Skellefteå (historically "Heletti" in Finnish) area, today's Bureå in Northern Sweden.

The Bure family lineages can be confirmed from various sources and by much evidence fairly reliably from the end of the 15th century onward.

Some Bure family lines and individuals have acquired the names Bure, Burman and Burensköld. Some Bure family lines – as well as individuals from other family lines – are noble.

Genealogical records

One of the many reported flags of the Knights Templar. The novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou compares in part with the early Bure family ancestry.

The earliest known extensive Bure family genealogy was written in the beginning of the 17th century by Johannes Bureus, in his manuscript Om Bura namn och ätt. In his study, Bureus included all the family ancestors and descendants, whether male or female and regardless of what social standing or legitimacy each family member might have represented, thus making it possible for many modern-day families to trace their ancestry back to the Bure kinship.

The manuscript Om Bura namn och ätt is located at Riksarkivet ("State Archives"), and two younger copies at the Uppsala University Library (numbers X36 and X37).[1]

The history of the Bure kinship is complemented by the studies of Nils Burman (1705–1750), who wrote about the Bure family history until the middle of the 18th century. Some Bure family lines and individuals have acquired the names Bure, Burman and Burensköld. Some Bure family lines - as well as individuals from other family lines - are noble. [2]

The cultural importance of the Bure family genealogy in Sweden is demonstrated e.g. by the novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou, which in part compares with the early Bure family ancestry. The trilogy features fictional events on fictional setting fitted upon the framework of the Bure kinship.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hans Gillingstam, "Genealogiska manuskript från vasatiden och stormaktstiden som källor för svensk medeltidsforskning och äldre arkivhistoria". Personhistorisk tidskrift årgång 70, häfte 3-4, 1974, utgiven av Personhistoriska samfundet.
  2. ↑ Carl Henrik Carlsson, "Släkten Burman i svenskt biografiskt lexikon - en släkt eller två? - Eller tre?". Individ och Historia - Studier tillägnade Hans Gillingstam. Stockholm, 1989.