Pierre de Corneillan

Fra ' Pierre de Corneillan, Peter also Cornilianus, Peter de Corvile, Pierre de Cornillan, ( † around October 1355 ) was from 1353 to his death in 1355, the 28th Grand Master of the Hospitaller Order

He came from Provence and was Grand Prior of Saint- Gilles was before elected to succeed the deceased in December 1353 Dieudonné de Gozon Grand Master.

During his tenure, the city owned by the St. John Smyrna was threatened by the Ottoman Turks, which is why Pierre by the Holy See received substantial cash payments for the fight against the Turks. 1354, the Turks conquered the Byzantine town of Gallipoli the first base on European soil, while the Order focused on the defense of Smyrna and undertook no significant offensives against the Turks. Pope Innocent VI. Pierre was then in October 1355 about bringing By Jean Fernandez de Heredia a letter in which he accused him of lazy inactivity. Instead of watching from the safety of Rhodes, the expansion of the Turks, he should use him constantly sent from Europe resources to relocate the headquarters of the Order of Rhodes in the land of the Turks, and to drive the Turks out of Asia Minor. Pierre responded evasively - he wanted to present this proposal to the General Convention on the advice, his death came a decision before. His successor, Roger de Pins, pursued the issue of transfer of seat no further.

Pierre - relief sarcophagus is preserved and is now in the Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris.