https://assassinscreedwiki.accesstheanimus.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=64.139.240.20Assassin's Creed Wiki - User contributions [en-gb]2026-06-10T07:05:57ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.42.3https://assassinscreedwiki.accesstheanimus.com/index.php?title=Edward_Thatch&diff=208877Edward Thatch2013-09-18T01:01:41Z<p>64.139.240.20: </p>
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{{WP-REAL|Blackbeard}}<br />
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{{Character Infobox<br />
|image = Blackbeard_profile_picture.png<br />
|birth = c. 1680<br />[[United Kingdom|Kingdom of England]]<br />
|death = 22 November 1718<br />{{Wiki|Ocracoke, North Carolina|Ocracoke}}, {{Wiki|Province of Carolina}}<br />
|hidep = yes<br />
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''<br />
|voice = [[Mark Bonnar]]}}<br />
'''Edward Teach'''<ref name="Teach">[https://twitter.com/DarbyMcDevitt/status/316277443885412354 ''Darby McDevitt comments on Blackbeard's true name'']</ref> (c. 1680 – 1718), sometimes known as '''Edward Teach''', or by the alias '''Blackbeard''', was an infamous [[United Kingdom|English]] [[Piracy|pirate]] captain who sailed the [[Caribbean|West Indies]] and the American Colonies during the early 18th century, aboard the ship ''[[Queen Anne's Revenge]]''.<br />
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Teach was also a contemporary and associate of [[Edward Kenway]]. Following his retirement, Kenway took an Irish bloodhound as a pet, which he named Thatch.<ref name="ACF">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forsaken]]''</ref><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*Lead Writer [[Darby McDevitt]] stated on his Twitter feed that the developers would be using the name Edward Thatch over the more commonly accepted Edward Teach, when referring to Blackbeard in ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag''.<ref name="Teach"/><br />
**The [[Database/Locations (AC3):Dead Chest Island|database entry]] for [[Dead Chest Island]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' uses the name "Edward Teach".<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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Blackflag011-1-.jpg|Blackbeard alongside Edward Kenway<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1680 births]]<br />
[[Category:1718 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Englishmen]]<br />
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