The second of the Ricardian monarchs' Rhisiart II "The Conqueror" succeeded to his father, Rhisiart I on the 13th June 1773. The second king from the House of Morgannwg, he was also the second Cymro-French monarch. He would turn out to be one of the most unpopular monarchs in Welsh history, with nobles, gentry, merchants alike all despising him for one reason or another. Only amongst the general populace did he remain popular, and then only because in the pre-media world the kingdom was kept blissfully unaware of his French tendencies, his struggle with the Welsh language and his scathing anti-democratic ideals.