It extended to the ecclesiastical provinces of Reims and Trier and perhaps beyond.
[3] The metropolitan bishop, Nicetius of Trier, was certainly in attendance.
[4] Theudebald apparently convoked the council because Nicetius had begun excommunicating Frankish aristocrats who contracted marriages within the prohibited degree of consanguinity.
The king wished to obtain a judgement against the metropolitan and a reversal of the excommunications.
He had received an invitation to the council written in the king's name.