His grandfather Andries van den Bogaerde (1726–1799) had been a prominent politician in the Brugse Vrije.

Andreas got lessons in Latin, Dutch and French from a monk of one of the suppressed convents of the Southern Netherlands.

of the Papeians de Morchoven dit van der Strepen family.

[2] The combined coats of arms of Andreas-Johannes and his wife are depicted on an overdoor at Heeswijk Castle.

Andreas had much work to arrange the adoption of Dutch laws and regulations instead of the Imperial French ones.

Other improvements were the construction of a fish hall in stone in Waasmunster, and the organization of the archives of Roosenberg Abbey.

In February 1830 William I of the Netherlands appointed Jonkheer Andreas as governor of North-Brabant province.

[5] Andreas always remained loyal to the king and was one of the few southerners to retain his office in the north after the Belgian Revolution.

[3] While many such appointments could come naturally to people in office, Andreas' inclinations became very clear in the late 1820s.

In 1830 this was recognized when he became a member of the exclusive Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (English "Society of Dutch Literature").

[7] Works like Essai d'un retour franc et libéral à l'ancien ordre légal dans tout le royaume des Pays-Bas make his position on the unification of the Netherlands clear.

In 1837 the Provincial Society for Arts and Sciences in North-Brabant (Provinciaal Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen in Noord-Brabant) was founded by Andreas and 6 others.

Some of the founding members were: The Protestant A. Martini van Geffen, who seems to have been the right hand of Andreas in Brabant.

The idea was that if the society organized a library, it would be easier to write a history of the province.

He then continued with the ambition for, and use of, a history of the province, the importance of improving agriculture, and finally some words on industrialization.