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Blackadder does not belong in any one society. He could be removed from any period and placed in another and be just as cynical. Some suggest he is a modern eye placed in past societies and is therefore able to pick at and dispair the flaws and absurdities of said societies. However, it seems more likely that Blackadder belongs to no period or given society. He would be just as bemused by and critical of modern society as he is by Elizabethan or Regency society.
In the first series, The Black Adder, set shortly after The War of the Roses, the central character is Prince Edmund, known as "the Black Adder", son of the fictional King Richard IV of England.
In Blackadder II the central character is Edmund, Lord Blackadder, a nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I of England.
In Blackadder the Third the central character is Mr. E. Blackadder, Esquire, butler to the Prince Regent.
In Blackadder Goes Forth the central character is Captain Blackadder, an officer in the British Army during World War I.
Various one-off specials have introduced other Blackadders throughout history, from the Roman60 and 400 with major cities. During this time only Dacia and Mesopotamia were added to the Empire but were lost before 300. The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman state in the centuries following its reorganization under t Centurion Blackadicus to a Blackadder in the distant future who becomes ruler of the universe.