She spent part of her youth in Brussels at the court of Isabella Clara Eugenia, the strict Catholic governor of the Southern Netherlands.

[1] In The Hague she was friends with Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, the wife of Stadtholder Frederik Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau, who was a cousin of her father.

She may have done this at the request of her cousin Oswald III Van den Bergh, who had been lord of Boxmeer since the death of his father, the founder of the monastery.

Maria Elisabeth's window is dedicated to Saint Serapion of Thmuis, a fourth-century Egyptian hermit.

The crown above the coat of arms is a Fürstenhut, which in Imperial Germany symbolized a monarch in the sense of head of state of a principality.

In the French text below the coat of arms, this dignity is mentioned first, with the title queen translated as princesse.

It is part of a series of six panels with portraits of noble ladies, including her friend Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.