William de la Corner

William de la Corner
Bishop of Salisbury
See	Diocese of Salisbury
Elected	24 or 25 November 1288
Term ended	October 1291
Predecessor	Lawrence de Awkeburne
Successor	Nicholas Longespee
Other posts	Archdeacon of Northumberland
Orders
Consecration	8 May 1289
Personal details
Died	October 1291
Denomination	Catholic

William de la Corner was a medieval Bishop of Salisbury, who fought a long but unsuccessful battle to become Archbishop of Dublin.

Biography

De la Corner was a papal chaplain and proctor as well as a royal envoy. He successively held the offices of prebendary of Teinton Regis and Highworth in the diocese of Salisbury, precentor of the diocese of York, and archdeacon of Northumberland.^[1]

In 1271, on the death of Fulk Basset, he was nominated as Archbishop of Dublin, but faced a rival candidate in Fromund Le Brun, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland : the result was a long and bitter struggle for the office, which required the personal intervention of the Pope, and ended in 1279 with both candidates being disqualified in favour of John de Derlington.^[2]

He was an unsuccessful candidate for the bishopric of Salisbury in March 1288, losing out to Lawrence de Awkeburne.^[1] After Lawrence's death, William was elected on 24 November 1288 and consecrated on 8 May 1289.

He died in October 1291, probably on the 10th.^[3]

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 British History Online Bishops of Salisbury accessed on 30 October 2007
↑ D'Alton, John Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin Hodges and Smith Dublin 1838 p.103
↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 270

References

British History Online Bishops of Salisbury accessed on 30 October 2007
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Lawrence de Awkeburne	Bishop of Salisbury 1288–1291	Succeeded by Nicholas Longespee

Bishops of Salisbury

see at Old Sarum	merged from Ramsbury & Sherborne Herman Saint Osmund Roger Henry de Sully Philip de Harcourt Josceline de Bohon Hubert Walter Herbert Poore Richard Poore see removed to New Sarum

Medieval	Richard Poore Robert de Bingham William de York Giles of Bridport Walter de la Wyle Robert Wickhampton Walter Scammel Henry Brandeston Lawrence de Awkeburne William de la Corner Nicholas Longespee Simon of Ghent Roger Martival Robert Wyvil Ralph Ergham John Waltham Richard Mitford Nicholas Bubwith Robert Hallam John Chandler Robert Neville William Ayscough Richard Beauchamp Lionel Woodville Thomas Langton John Blyth Henry Deane

Early modern	Edmund Audley Lorenzo Campeggio Nicholas Shaxton John Capon Gasparo Contarini William Petow Francis Mallet John Jewel Edmund Gheast John Piers John Coldwell Henry Cotton Robert Abbot Martin Fotherby Robert Tounson John Davenant Brian Duppa Humphrey Henchman John Earle Alexander Hyde Seth Ward Gilbert Burnet William Talbot Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly Thomas Sherlock John Gilbert John Thomas (I) The Hon Robert Hay Drummond John Thomas (II) John Hume Shute Barrington John Douglas

Late modern	John Fisher Thomas Burgess Edward Denison Walter Hamilton George Moberly John Wordsworth Frederick Ridgeway St Clair Donaldson Neville Lovett Geoffrey Lunt William Anderson Joseph Fison George Reindorp John Baker David Stancliffe Nick Holtam