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Re: Help please tracing my 10th G Grandfather (Rouffignac)in France
« Reply #9 on: Friday 29 October 21 12:57 BST (UK) »
https://archives.lacharente.fr/ark:/61904/s00552b5fdab33e7/559fd2dd23d13

page 127 first birth on the left page
Baptism of Jacob DeRouffignac  25 dec 1644  Father Thomas , mother Marie de la Motte, the child being 3 months old
No marriage registers for La Rochefoucault before 1644

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Publications_of_The_Huguenot_Society_of_London
click in Vol 5 and go to page 344

I presume you do not know Thomas's date of death. I read the pages talking about Jacob , all I can say is that Jacob never mentions his parents as if they were alive, so I think they died before 1687.