War of the bucket

 Yeah, a bucket is a war of the bucket.

The pope had to fight for power and in the roman empire many of them were killed, the pope was controlled by kings and nobility for two centuries.

The dark age was an age when the pope was controlled and held parties and also a pope named pope john the 12th was mixed up with the gods like Zeus and others, he also was killed by a husband that saw him cheating on his wife with and threw him out of the window.

The pope was mainly used to give kings more power and in 800ad, king Charlemagne king of the franks, wanted the pope to crown him as emperor in return for protection from the king, the next day he was crowned but he was like "what I crowned" and the pope said, "if you don't want to be crowned emperor of the west than ok then,".

Charlemagne being crowned as emperor was a very historical part and it made that only the pope could crown the emperor, but the pope was under the power of the king so. It was a circular power division.

While the Bishop of Freising was in Bologna the townspeople did a tour of the town and then they showed the bucket to the bishop and he insulted the bucket.

King Charlemagne and the franks slowly turned into the holy roman empire and the pope and the emperor were not good friends because they did not know who had more power King Charlemagne invested in his own bishops and abbots, and the holy roman empire was not really an empire, because it was made out of hundreds of counties, duchies, and others, the princes of the counties and duchies did not give the king their loyalty, the german nobility spent their time rebelling against the Charlemagne and he was trying to quell their relabelling, the king wanted to remove most of the nobility, but he can't just remove them so instead he got some bishops and abbots that he chose his family and loyal followers to powerful church positions and that made him more power and authority, also they were doing something called simony, basically, powerful church positions were the highest bidders, yeah and they were not cheap too.

As you can presume the pope was not happy.

In 1050, Reformist popes wanted to stop the emperor from abusing the church to increase his power, but the circular power division if the pope tried to stop the emperor he could just depose the pope, but THEN the emperor got Tuberculosis and died, yup dead, the emperor's 6-year-old child took over and the pope took advantage and made himself more powerful and made sure that the 6-year-old could not choose a pope, only the church cardinals, and he wrote down what powers he was giving himself, he has the power to depose emperors, only he can reinstate bishops, this name was the only name in the world (kinda odd tho).

Once the emperor (who is now an adult heard about this he was unsurprisingly angry, and the emperor said to the pope "you're deposed" then the pope went "aww", then the pope responded "you're deposed then the emperor said "aww", then the emperor said "WAIT YOUR DEPOSED", after the emperor apologized to the pope. 

The Bologna people were starting a cult for the bucket, yes the bucket.

Some people supported the pope while some people supported the emperor.

Modena and Bologna were not really friends,  they fought a lot in 1325, the bolognese burned farmland and Passerino dei Bonaccorsi (A person from Modena) had none of it, and took a small army to a fort to siege it, but then the people at the fort just handed it over.

The bolognese was pretty mad about losing one of their forts, fun fact that the bucket being stolen at the start of the war was probably not the reason the war started.

Bologna had a bigger army than Modena so Bologna started a siege on the fort held by the Modenese, Bologna's main army sieged the Modenese fort, while a smaller part of their army was blocking a river so that the Modeneses could not interfere.

So the Modenese faked the Bologna army by going up the river and quickly moving down the river to get through Bologna's army.

Bologna was expecting the Modenese army to attack the fort that the Bologna army was trying to get back (Yeah very confusing right? anyway) the Bolognese did not want to lose both forts.

By this time it was almost nighttime, most armies would make camp and then continue the next day but the outnumbered Modenese attacked the unprepared Bolognese, the Modenese did a move that was so impressive that they won the battle due to the surprisingly powerful move called "Attack from behind."

With deaths in the thousands, The Modense won and went on a spree of burning down stuff on the way, and when they got to the Bolognese city they had a celebration for three days about "you lost L." 

As they were about to leave the Modenese found the Bucket the Modesese used an artesian well instead of using buckets, so the Modenese stole the bucket, and it was moved to the city hall and it is still there to this day (rusted btw), the Bolonese was made to pay for war reparations and in return, Modena had to give back the forts.