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 Blackadder1 (VI)
- circa 1837: Lt. Edmund Blackadder, VC1 (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 Blackadder1 (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.