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Kekaumenos () is the family name of the otherwise unidentified Byzantine Empire author of the Strategikon, a manual on military and household affairs composed c. 1078. He was apparently of Georgian-Armenian originThe Oxford History of Byzantium By Cyril A. Mango, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.11 and the grandson of the dux of Hellas. Despite relevant suppositions, there exists no concrete evidence that he is the famous 11th century general Katakalon Kekaumenos, or his son.
His father-in-law was Nikulitzas Delphinas, a lord of Larissa who took part in the revolt of (Aromanians) in Thessaly in 1066. The 11th-century scholar Kekaumenos wrote of a Vlach homeland situated "near the Danube and ... the Sava, where the Serbians lived more recently". Cecaumeno: Consejos de un aristócrata bizantino (12.4.2), p. 122.Alexandru Madgearu|Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică
| pp=52 He associated the Vlachs with the Dacians and the Bessi. Kekaumenos referred to the Vlachs as an "unfaithful and undisciplined race".Alexandru Madgearu|Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică
| pp=52 "Ο λίβελος του Κεκαυμένου κατά των Βλάχων..." / Μια απάντηση του Γιώργη Έξαρχου. He did this in the archaic style of the time, where he pointed to the Balkan area "Dacia Aureliana" and to Macedonia where the Bessi lived.
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