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Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig

Field	Value
name	Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig
image	Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig.png
caption	Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig
birth_date
birth_place	Dresden
death_date
death_place	Copenhagen, Denmark
relatives	Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (his father)
King Frederick III (his grandfather)
nationality	Danish
occupation	Estate owner
awards	Order of the Elephant

King Frederick III (his grandfather) Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig (or Laurwigen; 1 July 1688 – 18 September 1754), count of Larvik, Gehejmekonferensråd (Privy Councillor) and director of the Danish West India Company from 1723.

Early life and education

The son of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve and Augusta af Aldenburg, Ferdinand Anton was born on 1 July 1688 at the Gyldenløve Mansion on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. From an early age he was appointed as Chamberlain. In 1714 he became avener.{{cite web|url=http://finnholbek.dk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I9327&tree=2|title=Ferdinand Anton greve Danneskiold-Laurvig|language=Danish|publisher=Stamtavler over danske adelsslægter

Property

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 Gyldenløve's Little Mansion on Bredgade in Copenhagen. In the early 1720s he altered the house with the assistance of the architect Johan Cornelius Krieger.

Career

In 1713 he was appointed gehejmeråd 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 the Danish West India Company.

He died in Copenhagen on 18 September 1754 and was buried from the Church of Our Lady.

References

"Moltke's Palace. The edifice". Moltkes Palæ.

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