title: Thoix
text: # Thoix
  
  Thoix (French pronunciation: ​; Picard: Toé) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Thoix is situated 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Amiens, on the D100 road. The Parquets river, a small tributary of the river Évoissons, which flows into the Selle, has its source in Thoix and also feeds the castle moat
  
  ## History
  
  The village has been known by many names over the centuries: Teoletum, Teoleium, Tois in 1140, Thois in 1212 and Thoys by 1301. The inhabitants are known as Téoduliens.
  
  Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (1488–1525), a favourite of king Francis I, was seigneur of Thoix.
  
  ## Places of interest
  
  * The fifteenth-century château.
  * Saint-Etienne's fifteenth-century church
  * A fifteenth-century stone cross in the square
  * A dovecote in the courtyard of the farm opposite the château
  * A memorial to an aerial combat between a French aeroplane and 8 German fighter planes on 5 June 1940.
  