[1][2] The Council was held at the end of Pope Urban II's tour of Italy and France, which he made to reassert his authority after the investiture controversy with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
[4] She met with Urban II, and on his urgings Eupraxia made a public confession before the church council.
[4] Henry, she claimed, held her against her will, forced her into orgies, offered her to his son Conrad, and attempted to use her in a black mass.
[6] The rest of the business of the council expressed fairly typical church concerns: there were at least 15 canons published during the council, including condemnations of the Berengarian;[7] and Nicolaitan heresies; an affirmation of transubstantiation, that is, the ;physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist; denunciations of the Antipope Clement III and his supporters; and a prohibition of payment to priests for baptisms, burials, or confirmations.
[9] The Byzantine Empire had lost much of its territory in Asia Minor to the Seljuk Turks in the aftermath of the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, and Alexius hoped Western knights could help him restore it.