The University of Dublin, corporately named as The Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin, is a research university located in Dublin, 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", making it Ireland's oldest operating university. It is the youngest of the seven "ancient universities" of Great Britain and Ireland, and shares a unique relationship with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.