Most of the royal clergy-especially those who rose to its upper echelons, such as canon and provost-were recruited from the lower nobility and sometimes even from the higher nobility.
Hans Olufsson (1500-1570), who was a canon at St Mary's Church before and after the Reformation and who held the prebend of Dillevik that included the income of 43 ecclesiastical properties, is regarded as the probable progenitor of the still extant Paus family [REF].