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The battle Hostile_encounter was crucial in the long war Hostile_encounter waged Hold by the Holy Roman Empire to attempt to assert Statement its power over the municipalities of Northern Italy , which decided Deciding to put Placing aside their mutual rivalries by allying Collaboration themselves in a military union symbolically led by Pope Alexander III , the Lombard League .