Decades later, historian Mór Wertner considered Paul belonged to the gens Koppán, as this clan owned the majority of the estates in Komárom County.
[1] Historian Gyula Pauler was the first scholar who listed his person among the members of the gens Szécs, albeit his theory based on a false assumption (he incorrectly identified Zsitvafödémes as an ancient estate of the kindred, instead of Födémes in Komárom County).
[4] According to an undated royal charter by Ladislaus IV, possibly around 1286, the King authorized Lodomer, Archbishop of Esztergom to excommunicate Paul and Nicholas, if they would confiscate two-thirds part of the trade customs in Komárom which were entitled to the Bakonybél Abbey.
Based on this, historian Gyula Kristó claimed the castle belonged to the Csák kindred's domain since that, however it appeared as a royal property both in 1283 and 1284.
Krisztina Tóth argued, unlike the Csáks, the powerful Kőszegi family, who remained without rival in Transdanubia after the deaths of Matthew II and Peter I Csák, indeed occupied Komárom Castle.
Accordingly, the Szécs brothers, among other local noble kindreds, were forced to take an oath of loyalty to the Kőszegi realm, and as their familiares, acted as "castellans" of Komárom Castle after that.
Matthew, who ruled de facto independently the north-western counties, turned against Andrew and thus expanded his influence along the Zsitva (Žitava) river, while defeated the Forgács branch of the Hont-Pázmány clan.
The assembly of the prelates, noblemen, Saxons, Székelys, and Cumans in Pest in the summer of 1298 mentioned "the laxity of the lord king" and accepted decrees authorized Andrew to destroy forts built without permission and ordered the punishment of those who had seized landed property with force.
[6] After the close of the diet, Andrew III entered into a formal feudal alliance with four influential barons – Amadeus Aba, Stephen Ákos, Dominic Rátót, Demetrius Balassa – and, surprisingly, Paul Szécs who stated that they were willing to support him against the Pope and the bishops.
[7] Tóth considered, Paul and Nicholas, who disappeared from contemporary records after 1297, when presumably died, started negotiations with the King who intended to establish an alliance among the local noblemen against the oligarchs – most notably Matthew Csák and the Kőszegis.