The Statute forbidding Bearing of Armour or Coming Armed to Parliament Act 1313 (originally titled Statuto sup' Arportam'to Armor or Statutum de Defensione portandi Arma) was enacted in 1313 during the reign of Edward II of England.

"[1] The statute was issued following a period of political turmoil in England which had culminated in the declaration of the Ordinances of 1311 – a set of regulations imposed on the king by the English peerage and clergy to restrict his power.

[2] When Gaveston returned from his exile in Ireland in 1309, he further infuriated the kingdom's most senior nobles by treating them with contempt, giving them crude nicknames such as "Burstbelly" and "Whoreson".

Edward sought to placate them on the latter occasion by sending Gaveston out of London and ordering the earls to come unarmed to parliament.

[2] Edward's enactment of the 1313 statute represented at least his fifth attempt to rein in his nobles' tendency to use the threat of armed force as a means of bringing pressure at Parliament.