page_title: Gunderslevholm
section_title: Gøye family
hierarchical_section_title: Gunderslevholm / History / Gøye family
caption_attribution_description: English: Christoffer Gøye (died 1584), posthumous portrait in Gevnø Castle
context_page_description: Gunderslevholm is a manor house and estate located 1+ km northwest of Næstved in southeastern Denmark. It has been owned by members of the de Neergaard family since 1803. The main building is located on high ground just west of the Suså river. It was originally a Baroque-style mansion built in 1729 for Carl Adolf von Plessen but was in 17887 adapted to the Neoclassical style. The estate covers 1,936 hectares
context_section_description: Mogens Gøye's first wife, Mette Bydelsbak, the daughter of Albrecht Engelbrechtsen Bydelsbak and Pernille Brock, was the last surviving member of her family after her brother had died in Dithmarschen. Gunderslevholm therefore passed to him when Axel Lagesen Brokin 1498 . He constructed a new main building in circa  1530.
  When Mogens Gøye died in 1544, Gunderslevholm was initially passed to his second eldest son, Rskil Gøye, but he died without children in 1560. Gunderslevholm was therefore passed on to his elder brother,  Christoffer Gøye. who served in the war against Sweden in 1564-65. He died in Viborg in 1584 but is buried in Gunderslev Church. His son and only child had died back in 1550 and Gunderslevholm was there passed to his nepjew, Mogens Gøye, a son of his younger brother Falk Gøye. Mogens Gøye was as headmaster of Herlufsholm School from 1609.
caption: Christoffer Gøye, the owner from 1560-1584, who is buried in Gunderslev Church
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