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'''Asser''' ({{IPAce-n|ˈ|æ|s|ər}}; {{IPA-cy|ˈasɛr|lang}}; died {{c.}} 909) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[monk]] from [[St David's]], [[Kingdom of Dyfed|Dyfed]], who became [[Bishop of Sherborne (ancient)|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.
In 893, Asser wrote a biography of Alfred, called the [[#The Life of King Alfred|''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 enabled the work to be reconstructed. 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 English ruler. Asser assisted Alfred in his translation of [[Gregory the Great]]'s ''[[Pastoral Care]]'', and possibly with other works.
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