The University of Dublin, corporately named as The Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin, is a research university located in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the degree-awarding body for Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1592 when Queen Elizabeth I issued a royal charter for Trinity College as "the mother of a university", thereby making it Ireland's oldest operating university. The University of Dublin is a sister college to the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge, and maintains an academic relation with them. It is also the youngest of the extant seven "ancient universities" of Great Britain and Ireland.