title: Soisy-Bouy
text: # Soisy-Bouy
  
  Soisy-Bouy (French pronunciation: (listen)) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
  
  ## History
  
  On 16 November 1240, Edmund Rich (1175–1240), also known as Saint Edmund or Eadmund of Canterbury, and as Saint Edmund of Abingdon, a 13th-century archbishop of Canterbury in England, died here at the house of Augustinian Canons.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  Inhabitants of Soisy-Bouy are called Bouyards.
  
  