diff --git a/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timestamps.pyx b/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timestamps.pyx
index f80cb2e27cc23..281c6f3a700eb 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timestamps.pyx
+++ b/pandas/_libs/tslibs/timestamps.pyx
@@ -1248,6 +1248,12 @@ class Timestamp(_Timestamp):
     nanosecond : int, optional, default 0
     freq : str, DateOffset
         Offset which Timestamp will have.
+
+        .. deprecated:: 1.3.0
+
+           The freq parameter of a Timestamp is deprecated and will be
+           removed in a future version.
+
     tz : str, pytz.timezone, dateutil.tz.tzfile or None
         Time zone for time which Timestamp will have.
     unit : str
@@ -1311,6 +1317,12 @@ class Timestamp(_Timestamp):
             Date corresponding to a proleptic Gregorian ordinal.
         freq : str, DateOffset
             Offset to apply to the Timestamp.
+
+            .. deprecated:: 1.3.0
+
+               The freq parameter of a Timestamp is deprecated and will be
+               removed in a future version.
+
         tz : str, pytz.timezone, dateutil.tz.tzfile or None
             Time zone for the Timestamp.
 
diff --git a/pandas/tests/scalar/test_nat.py b/pandas/tests/scalar/test_nat.py
index 79e9e1d4fc68b..1d3253f7fa551 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/scalar/test_nat.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/scalar/test_nat.py
@@ -321,8 +321,9 @@ def test_nat_doc_strings(compare):
     klass, method = compare
     klass_doc = getattr(klass, method).__doc__
 
-    # Ignore differences with Timestamp.isoformat() as they're intentional
-    if klass == Timestamp and method == "isoformat":
+    # Ignore differences with Timestamp.isoformat() and Timestamp.fromordinal()
+    # as they're intentional
+    if klass == Timestamp and method in ("isoformat", "fromordinal"):
         return
 
     if method == "to_numpy":