 In 1673, Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld took over the property which until then had belonged to the King of Denmark.Griffenfeldt named the farm Griffenfeldgård, but three years later it was renamed Jarlsberg Manor ("Jarlsberg Hovedgård").In 1682 the buildings on Jarlsberg burned and new buildings of stone were built by the new owner, the Danish-Norwegian Field Marshal Wilhelm Gustav Wedel.