According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

According to the historian Asser, Guthrum ’ s initial battle with Alfred resulted in a victory, as he was able to capture “ the castellum ” as well as the ancient square earthworks known as the “ Wareham ” where a convent of nuns existed.

Credit for the victory at Cynwit – as revealed by Æthelweard-is due to Ealdorman Odda of Devon, who is mentioned neither in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle nor in Asser ’ s Life of King Alfred, most likely out of reverence for Alfred ’ s status as king.

Asser gives a fairly detailed account of the events.

A map of southern Great Britain showing places Asser is known to have visited.

Asser gives no information about his time in Wales, but mentions various places that he visited in England, including the battlefield at Ashdown, Countisbury ( which he calls Cynuit ), and Athelney.

His contemporary biographer Asser wrote that many nobles baulked at the new demands placed upon them even though they were for " the common needs of the kingdom ".

After spending a year at Caerwent because of illness, Asser accepted.

Old Testament names were common in Wales at the time, but it has been suggested that this name may have been adopted at the time Asser entered the church.

According to his Life of King Alfred, Asser was a monk at St David's in what was then the kingdom of Dyfed, in southwest Wales.

Asser recounts meeting Alfred first at the royal estate at Dean, Sussex ( now East and West Dean, West Sussex ).

Asser joined several other noted scholars at Alfred's court, including Grimbald, and John the Old Saxon ; all three probably reached Alfred's court within a year of each other.

Asser records that he read aloud to the king from the books at hand.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the following entry as part of the entry for 909 or 910 ( in different versions of the chronicle ): " Here Frithustan succeeded to the bishopric in Winchester, and after that Asser, who was bishop at Sherborne, departed.

Asser, mentor of King Alfred the Great, and writer of his biography, was a monk at St David's before being called into Alfred's service.

The first was designed by Michael Fish when he worked at Turnbull & Asser, and was introduced in Britain in 1965 ; the term Kipper tie was a pun on his name.

Tobias Michael Carel Asser ( April 28, 1838, Amsterdam – July 29, 1913, The Hague ) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar of Jewish background, cowinner ( with Alfred Fried ) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference ( 1899 ).

In later years Asser, a scholar at Alfred the Great's court, recorded the story that Beorhtric had died from being accidentally poisoned by his wife, Eadburh.

The concert series was later moved to its present home at Asser Levy Park ( along Sea Breeze Avenue ) in Brighton Beach ( opposite the NY Aquarium ), and is these days is known as the " Seaside Summer Concert Series " ( held Thursday evening's July and August of each year ).

Asser, writing in about 893, believed that King Alfred the Great was born between 847 and 849 at Wantage in Berkshire.

According to Asser, in his Life of Alfred, the Vikings gave Alfred peace hostages, and " swore in addition that they would leave his kingdom immediately, and Guthrum, their king, promised to accept Christianity and to receive baptism at King Alfred's hand ; all of which he and his men fulfilled as they had promised.

The only reference in the sources to any kind of treaty at Wedmore is the above quote from Asser.

The Battle of Cynwit, also spelt Cynuit, took place in 878 at a fort which Asser calls Cynwit.

The men of Devon are said by Asser to have fought the Danes at the battle of the Battle of Cynwit in 878, which may have been at Kenwith Castle or Countisbury, although Cannington in Somerset is also claimed as the site of the battle.

It is widely known as a place where the shops are almost exclusively aimed at the gentlemen's clothing market and it is famous for its resident shirtmakers such as Turnbull & Asser, Charles Tyrwhitt, Thomas Pink and T. M. Lewin.

Grimbald and John the Saxon came from Francia ; Plegmund ( whom Alfred appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 890 ), Bishop Werferth of Worcester, Æthelstan, and the royal chaplains Werwulf, from Mercia ; and Asser, from St. David's in south-western Wales.

The strongest arguments for forgery are that a ) there is actually no new information in ' Asser ' that cannot be found in the surviving Anglo Saxon Chronicles, so that it is not contemporary with Alfred as it claims ; b ) that the Latin translation is simply lifted from the Chronicles ' narrative and interspersed with padding of no importance ; c ) that writing in Latin a contemporary narrative was anachronistic ; d ) that much of the alleged illness of Alfred in ' Asser ' is lifted from standard hagiographic conventions and similarly so are ' Asser's ' claims as to the educational development and attainments of Alfred ; and e ) that much of the dating in ' Asser ' uses the age of Alfred can be shown as incorrect and can be traced to the mis-datings in later rescensions of the Chronicles, so that ' Asser ' cannot have been a contemporary of Alfred.

* Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England entry for Asser

The East Saxon tribe who settled in southern England and formed the kingdom of Essex claimed to be the descendents of a god known as Seaxnēat, of whom little is known, whilst a runic poem mentions a god known as Ingui and the writer Asser mentioned a god known as Gēat.

According to Asser, following the alliance with Alfred, Anarawd in 895 with Saxon allies, ravaged Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi ( held by his brother Cadell ).

Alfred, according to Asser, insisted upon reviewing contested judgments made by his ealdormen and reeves, and " would carefully look into nearly all the judgements which were passed in his absence anywhere in the realm, to see whether they were just or unjust.

Although Asser never mentions Alfred's law code, he does say that Alfred insisted that his judges be literate, so that they could apply themselves " to the pursuit of wisdom.

Asser also writes that as a result of the aristocracy's resentment for Eadburh, the status and influence of the subsequent queens was diminished and they were titled not ' queen ' by ' king's wife '; the queen was also prohibited from sitting beside the king on the throne.

" Three years earlier Barsimson and another early Jewish settler, Asser Levy, joined in a petition to the governor and council of New Netherland to be permitted to stand guard like the other burghers, or to be relieved from the special tax imposed upon their nation in lieu thereof by resolution of governor and council ; but their request was curtly refused, with the remark that they might go elsewhere if they liked.

The late 9th-and early 10th-century writer Asser informed us that " there was in Mercia in fairly recent time a certain vigorous king called Offa, who terrified all the neighbouring kings and provinces around him, and who had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea " ( Asser, Life of Alfred, p.. 14 ).

It is mentioned by the monk Asser in his biography of Alfred the Great: " a certain vigorous king called Offa ... had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea ".

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Details of his life are described in a work by the 10th century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

It is during this period that Bishop Asser applied to him the unique title of " secundarius ", which may indicate a position akin to that of the Celtic tanist, a recognised successor closely associated with the reigning monarch.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

Although not mentioned by Asser or by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Alfred probably also paid the Vikings cash to leave, much as the Mercians were to do in the following year.

The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder.

( It is probable that, under the classical tutelage of Asser, Alfred utilised the design of Greek and Roman warships, with high sides, designed for fighting rather than for navigation.

Asser underscores his concern for judicial fairness.

Asser represents Alfred as a Solomonic judge, painstaking in his own judicial investigations and critical of royal officials who rendered unjust or unwise judgments.

It is uncertain how seriously this should be taken ; Asser was more concerned to represent Alfred as a wise ruler than to report actual royal policy.

Asser speaks grandiosely of Alfred's relations with foreign powers, but little definite information is available.

Comparatively early in his reign, according to Asser, the southern Welsh princes, owing to the pressure on them from North Wales and Mercia, commended themselves to Alfred.

Asser, in his Vita Ælfredi asserts that this shows his lineage from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight.

He was the son of Asser Rig, a magnate of the Hvide clan from Fjenneslev on Zealand.

On Good Friday 1158, bishop Asser of Roskilde died, and Absalon was eventually elected bishop of Roskilde on Zealand with the help of Valdemar, as the king's reward for the Hvide family support.

Asser in his Life of Alfred claims that Alfred's mother, Osburga, was descended from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, whom he identifies with the Goths.

* July 29 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1838 )

* April 28 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1913 )