biography
pronunciation:
[aser]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (850–?909)
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| biography:
| Welsh scholar, bishop, and counsellor to Alfred the Great. He spent his youth in the monastic community at St David's. Gaining a reputation for scholarship, he was enlisted into the royal service by Alfred, and made Bishop of Sherborne sometime before 900. He is best known for his unfinished Latin biography of King Alfred, the earliest biography of an English layman. |
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