He was ennobled by letters patent of 16 April 1657, as lord of Heetvelde and Bodeghem, and on 25 April the same year was appointed councillor and master of requests of the Great Council of Mechelen, being sworn in on 4 May. In 1663 he was appointed to the Supreme Council of Flanders in Madrid, returning to Brussels in 1668 as Chancellor of Brabant, a post he held for the next 18 years. He died in Brussels on 15 August 1686.
