 Academic Kornél Szovák considered Paul was identical with the chronicler Anonymus, author of the "Gesta Hungarorum", referring to a rare pair of object, which appears in both Paul's charter from 1177 and the chronicle (""potenter et pacifice"" and ""pacifice et feliciter"").Other scholars rejected this theory because Paul's death occurred still during the reign of Béla III and the chronicler referred to the monarch as a deceased person.Reflecting on that, Szovák argued there is no certainty on his death, Paul could retire from public life and entered a monastic order after his resignation from the archbishopric.