William de la Corner was a medieval

Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. The see is in the City of Salisbury where the bishop's seat ...

, who fought a long but unsuccessful battle to become Archbishop of Dublin.

Biography

Corner was a papal chaplain and proctor as well as a royal envoy. He successively held the offices of

prebend A prebendary is a member of the Roman Catholic or Anglican clergy, a form of canon with a role in the administration of a cathedral or collegiate church. When attending services, prebendaries sit in particular seats, usually at the back of t ...

ary of Teinton Regis and Highworth in the

diocese of Salisbury The Diocese of Salisbury is a Church of England diocese in the south of England, within the ecclesiastical Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of Dorset (excepting the deaneries of Bournemouth and Christchurch, which fall within the ...

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of the

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, Archdeacon of Glendalough and archdeacon of Northumberland. In 1271, on the death of

Fulk Basset Fulk Basset (died 4 May 1271) was archbishop of Dublin. He was the elder brother of John de Sandford, who was also Archbishop of Dublin from 1284 to 1290. He was called Fulk de Sandford and also Fulk Basset, owing to his relationship to the p ...

, Corner was nominated as

Archbishop of Dublin The Archbishop of Dublin is an archepiscopal title which takes its name after Dublin, Ireland. Since the Reformation, there have been parallel apostolic successions to the title: one in the Catholic Church and the other in the Church of Ireland ...

, but faced a rival candidate in Fromund Le Brun, the

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: the result was a long and bitter struggle for the office, which required the personal intervention of the

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, and ended in 1279 with both candidates being disqualified in favour of

John de Derlington John de Derlington (John of Darlington) (died 1284) was an English Dominican, Archbishop of Dublin and theologian. Life Derlington became a Dominican friar, and it has been inferred that he studied at Paris at the Dominican priory of St Jacques, ...

(although Derlington, detained in England on official business, died without reaching Ireland). D'Alton, John ''Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin'' Hodges and Smith Dublin 1838 p.103 Corner was an unsuccessful candidate for the bishopric of Salisbury in March 1288, losing out to Lawrence de Awkeburne.British History Online Bishops of Salisbury
accessed on 30 October 2007 After Lawrence's death, William was elected on 24 November 1288 and consecrated on 8 May 1289. Corner died in October 1291, probably on the 10th.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 270

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References

British History Online Bishops of Salisbury
accessed on 30 October 2007 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Corner, William De La Bishops of Salisbury Archdeacons of Northumberland 13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops 1291 deaths Year of birth unknown Archdeacons of Glendalough