the medieval baldrick was probably the only baldrick of the four who could really be described as clever. baldrick, an ex-dung shoveller (a respected position, which he had worked very hard to get – earlier jobs include milking pigs and mucking out lepers) and son of robin the dung gatherer, first met prince edmund at the feast before the battle of bosworth field and using flattery became his squire. the two, along with lord percy, toasted their new friendship, unaware that from that point onwards, their descendants' lives would be eternally entwined.