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The story of Griselda appears in several collections of medieval stories. In each appearance, the story goes roughly along roughly the same lines as this summary from the Decameron's version:
The Marquis of Saluzzo [Gualtieri], overborne by the entreaties of his vassals, consents to take a wife, but, being minded to please himself in the choice of her, takes a husbandman's daughter [Griselda]. He has two children by her, both of whom he makes her believe that he has put to death. Afterward, feigning to be tired of her, and to have taken another wife, he turns her out of doors in her shift, and brings his daughter into the house in guise of his bride; but, finding her patient under it all, he brings her home again, and shows her her children, now grown up, and honours her, and causes her to be honoured, as Marchioness.
The following links include illustrations and artwork showing the story of Patient Griselda, as well as appearances of this story in literary works. (See also The Griselda Game in The Chaucer Review, vol. 39.)
- The Tenth Day - Novel X of the Decameron by Boccaccio, c. 1350-1353
- Livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage et du réconfort des dames mariées by Philippe de Mézières, c. 1385-1389
- Tale of Griselda by Petrarch, 1373
- Canterbury Tales (The Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; see also Changes in the Griselda Story
- Advice on humility and obedience from Le Ménagier de Paris
 , 1393
- L'Estoire de Griseldis myz par personnages (BNF Fr. 2203), 1395
- Le livre du chevalier de La Tour Landry pour l'enseignement de ses filles by Geoffroi de La Tour Landry
- Decameron (BNF Fr. 239, fol. 295r), 15th century
- La Grande et merveilleuse patience de Grisilidis, fille d'ung pouvre homme appellé Janicolle du pays de Saluces (BNF Réserve de livres rares RES-Y2-528)
- Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070, fol. 387r), 1432
- Episode from the Story of Griselda by Pesellino, 1445-1450
- The Story of Griselda: Marriage, Exile, and Reunion, c. 1494
- Patient Grissill by Henry Chettle, William Haughton, and Thomas Dekker, 1603 (first performed in 1599); also at Patient Grissil: A Comedy
- The history of Patient Grisel, 1619 (see also The History of Patient Grisel: Two early tracts in black-letter)
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