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

Corner was a papal chaplain and proctor as well as a royal envoy. He successively held the offices ofprebendary of Teinton Regis andHighworth in thediocese of Salisbury,precentor of thediocese of York,Archdeacon of Glendalough andarchdeacon of Northumberland.^[1]

In 1271, on the death ofFulk Basset, Corner was nominated asArchbishop of Dublin, but faced a rival candidate inFromund Le Brun, theLord Chancellor of Ireland: the result was a long and bitter struggle for the office, which required the personal intervention of thePope, and ended in 1279 with both candidates being disqualified in favour ofJohn de Derlington (although Derlington, detained in England on official business, died in 1284 without reaching Ireland).^[2]

Corner was an unsuccessful candidate for the bishopric of Salisbury in March 1288, losing out toLawrence de Awkeburne.^[1] 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.^[3]

• 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.

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