Here's an interesting idea that I always wondered but never voiced aloud- how did the Blackadder and Baldrick lines continue throughout the centuries? We never saw either of them married (and with the exception of Blackadder, particularly in series 2 and 4- let's face it, his "wife" in series one DOES NOT COUNT :), we never saw any of them with any women, so how could they have had any heirs to continue their lineages? This makes me quite curious because Edmund (except for series 3) died at the end of each series, so any hay-rolling he took part in would have happened earlier of course...but...if he did have children, wouldn't it have been mentioned somewhere that he was married, had a family, even if they were estranged?

I could accept maybe that Blackadder may have had an illegitimate heir once or twice, but Baldrick? Even if they did have illegitimate children (off screen, yeah, that's the ticket), would they have necessarily have been given their surnames? And in some of these eras, if their heirs were indeed illegitimate, it certainly wouldn't have awarded Edmund his mostly-high-caste positions in the consecutive eras.

So...does anyone have a logical or a Blackadderian reason to explain this?