Nationality Danish Awards Order of the Elephant Grandparents Frederick III of Denmark | Occupation Estate owner Parents Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlove | |
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Born 1 July 1688 ( 1688-07-01 ) Dresden, Copenhagen (Denmark Relatives Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlove (his father)
King Frederick III (his grandfather) Name Ferdinand Danneskiold-Laurvig Died September 18, 1754, Copenhagen, Denmark Children Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig, Frederik Ludvig Danneskiold-Laurvig Great-grandparents Christian IV of Denmark, Anne Catherine of Brandenburg Similar People Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlove, Marie Grubbe, Frederick III of Denmark | ||
Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig (or Laurwigen) (1 July 1688 – 18 September 1754) was a Danish count, Gehejmekonferensrad(Privy Councillor) and director of the Danish West India Company from 1723.
Biography
The son of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlove and Augusta af Aldenburg, Ferdinand Anton was born on 1 July 1688 at the Gyldenlove Mansion on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. From an early age he was appointed as Chamberlain. In 1714 he became avener.
When his father died in 1704 he inherited several large estates, including the County of Laurvig in Norway and Herzhorn in Schleswig-Holstein. He also received Gyldenlove's Little Mansion on Bredgade in Copenhagen. In the early 1720s he altered the house with the assistance of the architect Johan Cornelius Krieger.
In 1713 he was appointed gehejmerad and was awarded the Order of the Elephant two weeks later. After his first wife had died in 1712, only a year after their marriage, on 20 December 1713 he married Ulrike Eleonore Reventlow, sister of Anne Sophie Reventlow.
Count Danneskiold-Laurvig was neither much in favour with King Frederick IV nor his successor, King Christian VI.
On 11 January 1723 he was appointed as director of Danish West India Company.
He died in Copenhagen on 18 September 1754 and was buried from Church of Our Lady.