Pavao adalah putra tertua Stjepko II (wafat 1274) comte Trogir. Ia berasal dari keluarga bangsawan Kroasia kuno desa Bribir di dekat Skradin, Kroasia selatan. Penyebutan pertama namanya muncul pada 1272, ketika ia menyandang gelar comte Bribir, oleh karena itu namanya dalam bahasa Kroasia: Šubić Bribirski.
Pernikahan dan keturunan
Pavao menikahi seorang wanita bernama Ursa (wafat 1303), mereka memiliki keturunan sebagai berikut:
Engel, Pál (1996). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I] (dalam bahasa Hungaria). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN963-8312-44-0.
Engel, Pál (2001). The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526. I.B. Tauris Publishers. ISBN1-86064-061-3.
Granić, Miroslav (1994). "Jadranska politika Šubića Bribirskih" [Adriatic Policy of the Šubićs of Bribir]. Radovi Zavoda Za Povijesne Znanosti HAZU U Zadru (dalam bahasa Kroasia). Zadar, Croatia: Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zavod za povijesne znanosti u Zadru. 36: 35–68.
Karbić, Damir (1999). "Defining the Position of Croatia during the Restauration of Royal Power (1345–1361). An Outline". Dalam Nagy, Balázs; M. Bak, János; Sebők, Marcell. The Man of Many Devices, who Wandered Full Many Ways. Central European University Press. ISBN963911667X.
Karbić, Damir (2004). "Šubići Bribirski do gubitka nasljedne banske časti (1322.)" [The Šubići of Bribir until the Loss of the Hereditary Position of the Croatian Ban (1322)]. Historical Contributions (dalam bahasa Kroasia). Zagreb, Croatia: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 22: 1–26.
Karbić, Damir (2010). "Diplomacy of the Šubići regarding relations between them, Neapolitan Angevins, Papacy and Venice at the end of the thirteenth and in the first decades of the fourteenth century". Dalam Kordé, Zoltán; Petrovics, István. Diplomacy in the Countries of the Angevin Dynasty in the Thirteenth–Fourteenth Centuries. Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma. hlm. 125–141. ISBN978-963-315-046-7.
Jakšić, Nikola (1998). "Srednjovjekovni sabor plemenitih Hrvata II Podbrižanima" [The Mediaeval Sabor (Assembly) of Noble Croats at Podbrižane]. Starohrvatska Prosvjeta (dalam bahasa Kroasia). Zadar, Croatia: Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za povijest umjetnosti. 3 (25): 109–126.
Laszlo Klemar, Kosjenka (2016). "Srednjovjekovni franjevački samostan i crkva sv. Marije u Bribiru" [The medieval Franciscan monastery and church of St. Mary in Bribir]. Prilozi Povijesti Umjetnosti U Dalmaciji (dalam bahasa Kroasia). Zagreb, Croatia: Hrvatski restauratorski zavod – Zagreb. 43 (1): 87–105.
Mikulić, Tihomir (2016). "Dosad nepoznati tip poludenara Nikole Bánffyja" [A Previously Unknown Type of Half Denar of Nikola Bànffy]. Numizmatičke Vijesti (dalam bahasa Kroasia). Zagreb, Croatia: Croatian numismatic society. 58 (69): 46–67.
Tolić, Željko (2016). "Samostani klarisa u hrvatskome srednjovjekovlju" [Monasteries of the Poor Clares in Medieval Croatia]. Obnovljeni život : časopis Za Filozofiju I Religijske Znanosti (dalam bahasa Kroasia). Split, Croatia: The Catholic Faculty of Theology, The University of Split. 71 (1): 119–131.
Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] (dalam bahasa Hungaria). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN978-963-9627-38-3.
Sumber
(Inggris) John V.A Fine, Jr The late Medieval Balkans University of Michigan Press 1994 (ISBN 0472082604) p. 208-216
Pal Engel, Gyula Kristo et Andras Kubinyi Histoire de la Hongrie Médiévale, Tome II Des Angevins aux Habsbourgs P.U.R Rennes (2008) (ISBN 9782753500945).