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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: 900, 900s architecture, 900s births, 900s deaths, 901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909, 900-909, Asser, Fenari Isa Mosque, Gero, List of state leaders in 909, List of state leaders in 907, List of state leaders in 908, List of state leaders in 904, List of state leaders in 905, List of state leaders in 903, List of state leaders in 902, List of state leaders in 901, List of state leaders in 906, List of state leaders in 900, Epistola Adefonsi Hispaniae regis, Aditya I, Battle of Pressburg, Rus'-Byzantine War, Mantyasih Inscription, Eohric of East Anglia, Berengar II of Italy, Tirtha Empul Temple, Adaldag, Bagrat I of Klarjeti, Majolus of Cluny, Amr II, Gomelo II, Sack of Thessalonica, 900s in poetry, Battle of the Holme, Leofstan, Wulfsige of London, Æthelweard of London, Fujiwara no Toshiyuki, Psalter (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS A. I. 14). Excerpt: Asser (d. 908/909) was a Welsh monk 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. 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 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. Asser is sometimes cited as a source for the legend about Alfred's having founded the University of Oxford, which is now known to be false. A short passage making this claim was interpolated by William Camden into his 1603 edition of Asser's Life. Doubts have also been raised periodically about whether the entire Life is a forgery, written by a slightly later writer, but it is now almost universally accepted as genuine. A map of southern Great Britain showing places Asser is known to have visited. The monasteries he was given by Alfred are also shown. The exact location of Ashdown is uncertain, though it is known to be on the Berkshire Downs.Asser (also known as John Asser or Asserius Menevensis) was a Welsh monk who lived in the late 9th century. Almost nothing is known of Asser's early life. The name Asser is likely to have been taken from Aser, or Asher, the eighth son of Jacob in Genesis. Old Testament names were common in Wales at the time, but it has been suggested that this name may have been adopted