This council convened on 8 November 535 in Clermont under the auspices of Theudebert I, the Merovingian king of Austrasia. The council was presided over by Honoratus, the metropolitan bishop of Bourges, and gathered 14 other bishops - those who did not attend the second council of Orléans two years earlier. They represented the cities of the North and the East of the Frankish realm (like Reims and Metz) and the cities recently conquered from the Burgundians in the South (such as Rodez and Javols).