Background
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.
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. 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. In 1713 he was appointed gehejmeråd and was awarded the Order of the Elephant two weeks later.
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.