Maria's father was knighted by James I of England in 1620 at the mediation of his brother-in-law Pieter Jansz Hooft,[3] but it is not certain whether the title also referred to his children.

[3][4] At the age of 27 Maria Overlander married Frans Banning Cocq,[5] who should go down in art history through his depiction as the captain of Rembrandts painting The Night Watch.

The wedding portrait of Overlander - Banninck Cocq painted by Wybrand de Geest is in the Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft.

[7] After the death of her mother Geertruid Jansdr Hooft in 1636, she and her husband inherited the Free and high Fief Purmerland and Ilpendam.

[9] Since Maria Overlander had no own children, her inheritance went in equal parts in 1678 to her cousin Catharina Hooft[10] (daughter of her paternal aunt Geertruid Overlander; 1577–1653) and Catharinas younger son Jacob de Graeff, and after his childless death in 1690/91 to his older brother Pieter de Graeff.