Background
Daughter of Jens Werner Akeleye (d 1772) and Martha Bruun (d 1797), she married Herman Løvenskiold (1739–1799) in Copenhagen in 1763.
Daughter of Jens Werner Akeleye (d 1772) and Martha Bruun (d 1797), she married Herman Løvenskiold (1739–1799) in Copenhagen in 1763.
She became known for her adventurous love life. They settled in Norway. She was described as a well educated and demanding beauty, him as dissimilar, and their relationship was not happy.
The marriage had been arranged.
In 1764, she met the infamous libertine Count Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig, who, in 1765, was exiled from Denmark to Laurvig i Norway after his abduction of the actress Mette Marie Rose from the Royal Danish Theatre. In 1767, a commission was set up to investigate her elopement, and by the help of Laurwigen, Ingeborg was declared of legal majority.
She then lived with Laurwigen, who was exiled a second time to Norway in 1770. The couple settled in Copenhagen in 1787.