| | | Type | Year Published |
| Weber, Bernerd C. | Catherine de' Medici: A Royal Bibliophile | Journal Article | 1949 |
| Weil, Rachel | The Crown has Fallen to the Distaff': Gender and Politics in the Age of Catherine de Medici, 1560-1589 | Journal Article | 1985 |
| Wellman, Kathleen | Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France | Book | 2013 |
| Wellman, Kathleen | Mistrusting the Historiography of Royal Mothers: Louise of Savoy and Catherine de Medici | Journal Article | 2015 |
| Wilson, Mark Frederick | Protestant Polemic in the 1570s: Elizabethan Responses to the Northern Rising, the Papal Bull and the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day | Thesis | 2014 |
| Wilson-Chevalier, Kathleen | Patronnes et mécènes à la Renaissance, d'Anne de France à Catherine de Médicis | Book | 2007 |
| Zim, Rivkah | Dialogue and discretion: Thomas Sackville, Catherine de Medici and the Anjou marriage proposal 1571 | Journal Article | 1997 |
| Zum Kolk, Caroline | Catherine de Médicis: La maison de la Reine (1533-1589) | Thesis | 1999 |
| Zum Kolk, Caroline | Les femmes à la cour de France au XVIe siècle. La fonction politique de la maison de Catherine de Médicis (1533-1574) | Book Section | 2008 |
| Zvereva, Alexandra | 'Par commandement et selon devys d'icelle dame': Catherine de Médicis commanditaire de portraits | Book Section | 2008 |
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