Ingeborg Akeleye (May 13, 1741 – June 2, 1800) was a Norwegian noblewoman and heiress. She became known for her association with prominent men and her adventurous love life.

Life

Ingeborg Jensdatter Akeley was the daughter of Commander Jens Werner Akeleye (1703–1772) and Martha (Bruun) Akeleye (1710–1797). In 1763, her marriage was arranged with Herman Leopoldus Løvenskiold (1739–1799), who was a member of the Norwegian Løvenskiold noble family. She was described as a well-educated but demanding beauty, him as dissimilar, and their relationship was not happy. In 1764, she met Danish nobleman Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig (1723–1783). He who was a grandson of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig and founder of the city of

Laurvig Larvik () is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality of Larvik has about 46,364 inhabitants. The municipality has a 110 ...

(modern-day Larvik Norway). In 1765, Danneskiold-Laurvig was exiled from Copenhagen to Larvik after his abduction of the actress Mette Marie Rose (1745–1819) from the

Royal Danish Theatre The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT, Danish: ') is both the national Danish performing arts institution and a name used to refer to its old purpose-built venue from 1874 located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The theatre was founded in 1748, first s ...

. Ingeborg had a relationship with him resulting in her divorce in 1766. At her father's insistence, she received a settlement from Løvenskiold. Her father subsequently acquired royal consent as Ingeborg's guardian, but she escaped his authority and lived with different friends in Norway and Sweden. In 1767, a commission was set up to investigate her escape. With the help of Danneskiold-Laurvig, Ingeborg was declared of

legal majority The age of majority is the threshold of legal adulthood as recognized or declared in law. It is the moment when minors cease to be considered such and assume legal control over their persons, actions, and decisions, thus terminating the contro ...

. She then lived with Danneskiold-Laurvig who in the meantime had become a widower. The couple began a prolonged cohabitation which ended in 1783 when Danneskiold-Laurvig died. In his will, Danneskiold Laurvig had bequeathed a settlement to Ingeborg. She next married Swedish diplomat Carl Ingmann von Manderfeldt (1747-1813) who in 1778 had fled with accusations of embezzlement to Norway. The couple settled in Copenhagen in 1787. After the death of Ingeborg in 1800, Manderfeldt returned in Sweden where he died in 1813.

References

External links

* http://runeberg.org/dbl/1/0180.html (in Danish) * http://runeberg.org/sbh/a0545.html (in Swedish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Akeleye, Ingeborg 1741 births 1800 deaths 18th-century Norwegian nobility 18th-century Norwegian women

Life

See also

References

External links