Ponthoile

Ponthoile is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

Geography

Administration

Demography

At the 13th century one counted in Ponthoile 180 fires, according to Dom Grenier. One century later, after the devastations of the War One hundred Year old, one did not count of it any more, according to the English statistics, quoted by Dom Grenier, that 48.

Thereafter, the population of Ponthoile has progressed gently until the middle of the 19th century, to decline thereafter, and to start a light rectification for one decade:

History

  • 1201 : Guillaume III of Ponthieu, ninth count de Ponthieu, married to the sister of the King de France Philippe II Auguste, Alix, grants to Ponthoile a charter guaranteeing communal freedoms (November 7th), inspired by the charter of Abbeville of 1184, which was used as model with the development of almost all the other charters of the Ponthieu.
  • 1346 : During the War One hundred Year old, the English troops, which plunder and burn the villages of the Ponthieu on their passage, put at bag Ponthoile the August 24th, the day of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, hardly two days before the Bataille of Crécy, burning the Church, whose existence was proven since the 12th century.
  • 1849 : As in all the communes of France, the major population masculine could, for the first time, outward journey to vote thanks to the introduction of the Vote for all.
Here the distribution (of number) of some patronyms of the voters:
(seized nonexhaustive!)

Places and monuments

  • Monument of the Brothers Caudron commemorating the flight of an aircraft " ROMIOTE I" drawn by the mare " Luciole".

  • Church Saint Pierre. Strongly deteriorated by two fire, it east decides on February 2nd, 1836 to demolish it and build a new building a little larger, out of bricks and slates, with a few tens of meters from there. The quatorzes stained glasses (of which is walled) come from the Ateliers Charlemagne of Toulouse.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Sum

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