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Asser
9th-century Bishop of Sherborne, writer, and monk
For other uses, see Asser (disambiguation).
Asser (; Welsh:[ˈasɛr]; died c. 909) was a Welshmonk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s.
About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was recruiting for his court. After spending a year at Caerwent because of illness, Asser accepted.
Alfred the great biography asser
In 893, Asser wrote a biography of Alfred, called the Life of King Alfred. The manuscript survived to modern times in only one copy, which was part of the Cotton library. That copy was destroyed in a fire in 1731, but transcriptions that had been made earlier, together with material from Asser's work which was included by other early writers, have made it possible to reconstruct the work.
The biography is the main source of information about Alfred's life and provides far more information about Alfred than is known about any other early Engl