It extended to the ecclesiastical provinces of Reims and Trier and perhaps beyond.
[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.
He claimed that he had not learned of the purpose of the council in time.