Lystrup, Faxe Municipality

Lystrup was created when the farms in a village by the same name was merged into a single manor. It is first mentioned in 1403 when it belonged to Olsen Godo. After Oluf Pedersen Godov's death, it was passed on to his daughter Regitse Olufdatter Godov. She was married to Palle Andersen Ulfeldt.

Drawing by Søren Abildgaard of Sivert Grubbe and his wife's ledgerstone in Kongsted Church.

Their daughter, Mette Ulfeldt, married Sivert Grubbe. He was one of the signatories of the act that instituted Protestantism in Denmark in 1536, Grubbe had many children. One of his sons, Jørgen Grubbe fell into captivity in Turkey and later settled in East Prussia. Another son disappeared abroad. When Grubbe died in 1559, Lystrup was therefore passed on to his youngest son, Eiler Grubbe (1532–1585), who had served as a secretary at Crown Prince Frederick's court in Malmöhus. He married Else Laxmand in 1559. He was appointed to treasurer (rentemester) in 1560 and Chancellor of the Realm in 1570.

After Eiler Grubbe's death in 1585, Lystrup was passed to his son Christian Grubbe. He led a quiet life on his estate without offices at the court and did not marry until the age of 37. His son, Peder Grubbe, who served in the Torstenson War (1643-1645), inherited Lystrup after his father. He had to sell some of his estates but kept Lystrup. After his death, it was passed to his son Tønne Grubbe (1651-1721). He was rather unstable and for a while imprisoned at Kastelle in Copenhagen. He married Wilhelmine Hedevig von Winsheim (1659-1710) but the couple had no children. He died in 1721 at the age of 70 as the last member of the Grubbe family in Denmark.

A few years prior to his death, Tønne Grubbe had endowed Lystrup to Claus Bendix Beenfeldt who was married to Christine Cathrine Statlander, a niece of Grubbe's late wife. He was an army officer but was dismissed after the end of the Great Northern War in 1720. The family then settled on the Lystrup estate. In 1740, he also acquired the neighbouring estate at Jomfruens Egede north-west of Faxe.[3] [4]

Claus Bendix Beenfeldt had two daughters, Anna Vilhelmine Beenfeldt (1720-1775) and Christine Ulrikke Beenfeldt (1723-1781). Anne Vilhelmine Beenfeldt married Christian Holmsted (1715-1754) while her sister married his twin brother Thomas Holmsted (1715-1773). In 1750, Claus Bendix Beenfeldt ceded Lystrup to Christian Holmsted and Jomfruens Egede to Thomas Holmsted. After Christian Holmsted's early death in 1754, Anna Vilhelmine Beenfeldt married Niels Rosenkrantz von Holstein-Rathlou. When Anna Vilhelmine Beenfeldt died in 1775, he then married her sister, Christine Ulrikke Beenfeldt, who had become a widow a couple of years earlier. After Niels Rosenkrantz von Holstein-Rathlou's death in 1786, Lystrup was passed to Christian Frederik von Holstein-Rathlou (1758-1828), his son by Anna Vilhelmine Beenfeldt.

Christian Frederik von Holstein-Rathlou's son-in-law, Johan Caspar Mylius (1776-1852) purchased the estate in 1831. He was already the owner of a number of other estates. After his death in 1852, it was endowed to his eldest son, Johan Jacob Mylius (1816-1857). After his death in 1857, Lystrup was passed on to his brother, Frederik Vilhelm de Mylius, who sold it.

Lystrup depicted by Ferdinand Richard in 1861

The new owner was Carl Henrik Moltke (1833–1918). He renovated the main building and lived there until his death. Lystrup was after his death in 1918 passed on to his son Aage Molkte (1866-1943). The estate is still owned by members of his family.