Legacy
The book Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty includes an appendix that expands on the fictional chronology of the television show. This chronicles that following the death of the entire Royal Family, Henry Tudor usurped the throne and re-wrote history to eliminate the reign of Richard IV and, therefore, Edmund. Additionally, Edmund has illegitimate descendants who adopt the surname "Blackadder" and are given noble status.
As revealed in Blackadder II, he has at least three grandsons: one named Osric is kidnapped and his ransom not paid, another named Nathaniel marries a fanatical Puritan and holds the peerage of Whiteadder, and another one squanders the family fortune "on wine, women and amateur dramatics"; by the end of his life he ekes out a living doing humorous impressions of Anne of Cleves. His great-grandson, Edmund, Lord Blackadder serves as a courtier of Elizabeth I of England, last member of the Tudor dynasty.
In following series, descendants of Percy and Baldrick continue to appear as characters closely associated with the Blackadders.
Read more about this topic: Prince Edmund (Blackadder)
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)