Aagaard is a manor house and estate located at Gørlev, Kalundborg Municipality, 100 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark.
[2] His widow, Karen Gyldensparre, ceded it to their son-in-law Rasmus Melvin, the owner of Nørager.
[2] After Peder Bensezon's death, Aagaard was sold at auction to Major-General Peter Scavenius for 18,000 Danish rigsdaler.
His widow, Helle Benzon, a more distant relative of the previous owners, kept the estate after his death two years later.
He had a background as a naval officer but had more recently worked for the Danish Asiatic Company in Canton.
After his return to Denmark in 1785, he had been appointed as member of fabriksdirektionen, a subcommittee of the Commercial College (Kommerskollegiet), tasked with improving the productivity of the royal manufacturies.
On 18 December 1796, Mourier sold Aagaard for 112,500 Danish rigsdaler and moved back to Copenhagen.
[2] Adam Georg Ernst Henrik Moltke transferred Aagaard's tenant farms to Nørager in 1865.
Aagaard, Søgaard, a number of houses and the churches in Gørlev and Helsinge were sold to J. Hellemann.