Asselt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑ.səlt]; Limburgish: Assel) is a village in the municipality of Roermond in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.

[3] In Carolingian times (8th to 11th centuries), Asselt was a Frankish crown domain and royal court (villa, vroenhof, curtis) and as such also functioned as a palace, a place where the supplies of princes were collected and where justice was administered.

The Vikings established an army camp here in 881, from which they undertook numerous raids in the surrounding area (including the Sack of Maastricht in 881).

In 1665, the heerlijkheid of Asselt, with the Asselterhof as its administrative center, was sold by the widow Ursula Schellaert van Obbendorf to Christoffel Schenck van Nydeggen, owner of Hillenraad Castle and the heerlijkheid of Swalmen, with which the heerlijkheden of Swalmen and Asselt came into one hand and remained so until to the abolition by the French.

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Dionysius of Paris was built in the 11th century on a headland on the Meuse, where a fortress had previously stood.