Financing Chartres 11th century Cathedral - begging for building funds

Popular thought has it that the Knights Templars were "the builders" of the gothic cathedrals such as the one in Chartres, France. As for Chartres, the first building phase of a big cathedral followed the 1020 fire. This is a century before Templar times. If the Templars did not, who did pay for this early building project? A reconstruction.

The Templar Commandery at Alphen, the Netherlands

Near Alphen in the provicne of North, the Netherlands, Brabant lay Ter Brake, the only Templar commandery on the soil of the present Netherlands whose existence is beyond doubt. Charters and tradition point to the lords of Breda as its founders, and the Hospitallers kept it for three centuries. What do the charters tell us, and what does the soil say?