Despite her mothers pleas to relatives for help, it was only through the intervention of the French parliamentarian Jacques Auguste de Thou with Henry IV that they were released.

In November 1609 her brother Henri and his wife Charlotte de Montmorency arrived in Brussels seeking asylum at the court of the archducal couple Albrecht and Isabella.

The couple were at first welcomed at court but remaining in Brussels however presented a political inconvenience for the archdukes , and instead Éléonore and her husband brought her brother and sister in law to their residence in Breda which was considered more neutral ground.

[7] The linen damask was specially woven with flower motifs, hunting scenery, biblical representations and images from classical literature.

When her husband died after a failed medical treatment, Éléonore did not inherit anything, since Philip William had willed all his possessions to his half-brother Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.