Basnæs is a manor house and estate located southeast of Skælskør, Slagelse Municipality, Denmark.

Though his daughter Karen's marriage Jesper Krafse til Utterslevgård, Basnæs was transferred to members of a new noble family.

Their son n Hans Jespersen Krafse, who served as lensmand of Kalundborg and Jorsør, was the next owner of the estate.

[2] Basnæs passed out of the Brahe family in the 1620s when it was acquired by eren Henrik von der Wisch and shortly thereafter ceded to the Crown.

Basnæs was in 1726 acquired by general war commissioner r Axel Hansen Arenfeldt, He refurbished the dilapidated main building.

The next owner was her brother Ove Ramel, who also increased the size of the estate through the acquisition of more land.

Eggers sold Basnæs by auction in 1716 for 40,000 Danish rigsdaler to Lars Venzon til Sæbygård and Hagestedgård.

Shortly thereafter Benzon sold the estate to the French-born army officer eralløjtnant Laurence de Boysset.

After his death in 1774, Basnæs was sold in a third auction, this time to Johan Baltzer Henrich, district judge of Lolland-Falster.

Gus father of the same name of the same name had bought Ghorslev and a number making a fortune as a general trader in India.

His wife Henriette was the daughter of count Otto Joakim Moltke of nearby Espe Manor.