List of Blackadders

Here is a chronological list of those who are identified as "Blackadders":

circa 2500 BC: Edmun¹
circa 54 BC: Blaccadda¹
circa 122: Blackaddercus
circa 1066: Duc D'Blackadder¹
circa 1150: Blackadder the Chickenheart¹
1187 - 1217: Baron de Blackadder¹
circa Robin Hood's time: Lord Blackadder²

Canon[]

1461 - 1498: Prince Edmund (I), The Black Adder
fl. 1509 - 1558: Cardinal Blackadder¹
circa 1547: Lord Edmund Blackadder I (II)
circa 1547: Nathaniel Blackadder later Lord Whiteadder
fl. 1547 - 1565: Osric Blackadder
1531 to 1566: Lord Edmund Blackadder (III)
fl. 1648 - 1660: Sir Edmund Blackadder (also known as Lord Blackadder¹) (IV)
circa 1680: Lord Blackadder
circa 1702: Duke of Blackadder¹
1762 – 1830: Edmund Blackadder, Esq. (V)
circa 1820: Edmund Blackadder^{1 (VI)}
circa 1837: Lt. Edmund Blackadder, VC^{1 (VI)}
circa 1837: 'Elegant Eddie' Blackadder¹
fl. 1858: Ebenezer Blackadder
Isambard Kingdom Blackadder¹
E. E. Blackadder¹
fl. 1901: Dr. Blackadder¹
1871 - 1917: Captain Edmund Blackadder (VII)
circa 1940: Edmund T. Blackadder Jr.^{1 (VIII)}
circa 1972: Sir Edmund de Blackadder^{1 (IX)}
circa 1988: Edmund Blackadder (X)
circa 2000: Professor G. R. Blackadder¹
Edmund, Lord Blackadder (XI)
Captain, the Lord Edmund Blackadder (XII)
fl. 2002: Sir Osmond Darling-Blackadder
fl. 2012: Sir Edmund Blackadder
circa 2020 Lord Blackadder
far future: Grand Admiral Blackadder

Additionally, MacAdder, the cousin of Edmund Blackadder, Esq., is introduced in Blackadder the Third.

Connection in personalities[]

Each Blackadder is manipulative, cold, cynical, selfish, cowardly, cunning, arrogant, sarcastic, egotistical and sly. Each of them are sociopathic and vain and share a severe dislike of all Baldricks.

Notes[]

Mentioned only in text sources. Canonicity unclear.
The popular version of Robin Hood is generally shown to live around a stylised version of the 1190s. If there is any particular relation between this Lord Blackadder and the Baron Blackadder above, it is unknown and unstated.